Inter Korean Summit in Septemer...What to expect

Korean experts in Australia are of a view that North Korea will want economic results from South Korea at the upcoming inter-Korean summit.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (L) talk in private during the Inter-Korean Summit on April 27, 2018. Source: Getty

Kim and Moon will meet for their third meeting—recall that their first meeting in April was the third overall inter-Korean summit—in September and many experts expect that the upcoming inter-Korean summit may be more difficutl for S. Korean President Moon than the first two encounters with Kim.

The meeting was announced in a press statement following joint high-level inter-Korean talks on the North Korean side of the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom, the site of the April 27 summit.

“The South and the North agreed to hold the scheduled Inter-Korean Summit within September in Pyongyang,” the statement noted.

What are the implicatoins of the third inter-Korean summit between Moon and Kim? Korean political commnetator Jung-sik Seo analyses.