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North Korea's Kim to meet South Korean minister
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-17 09:52
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il will meet South Korea's unification minister
on Friday, a ministry spokesman said.
Kim rarely meets officials from other countries and his expected talks with
Unification Minister Chung Dong-young come as delegates from South Korea are in
Pyongyang to mark the fifth anniversary of a landmark summit between Kim and
then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.
South Korean representatives (2nd R and L)
from educational civic groups dance with North Korean students as they
visit a middle school in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang June 15,
2005.[Reuters] | "The minister plans to meet
Chairman Kim Jong-il today. But we can't give you details about the place or
time," the spokesman said by telephone in Seoul. Kim's main official title among
many is chairman of the National Defense Commission.
Kim Young-nam, right, chairman of the Standing
Committee of the North Korean Supreme People's Assembly, escorts South
Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young, center, to hold their
meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, June 16, 2005.
[AP] | The timing of the meeting is significant. There is growing concern over
whether North Korea will return to stalled six-party talks on ending its nuclear
weapons programs. Washington has said the North has told U.S. officials
Pyongyang will return, but North Korea did not set a date.
Chung would be only the second South Korean minister to meet Kim since the
2000 summit of the leaders of the North and South, the ministry
said.
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