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South Korea to send special envoy to North Korea, president tells Donald Trump

S. Korean President Moon

S. Korean President Moon Source: Getty Image

South Korea plans to send a special envoy to North Korea in response to an invitation from leader Kim Jong-un, South Korean President Moon Jae-in told his US counterpart Donald Trump in a phone call on Thursday.


The two presidents discussed the recent visits to the south by high-level North Korean officials, the South Korean presidential Blue House said in a statement.

The Olympics gave a boost to recent engagement between the two Koreas after more than a year of sharply rising tensions over the North's missile programme and its sixth and largest nuclear test in defiance of UN sanctions.

Full details from Korean political commentator Jung-sik Seo are available on the audio news.


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