SEOUL — South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday to a lively welcoming party that included North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, kicking off a three-day summit aimed at reviving a diplomatic process that has stalled.
Kim and his wife greeted Moon and his wife with handshakes and hugs on the tarmac at Pyongyang’s Sunan International Airport shortly after 10 a.m. local time on Tuesday.
Moon, the first South Korean president to visit Pyongyang in more than a decade, is seeking to make progress on inter-Korean engagement while urging North Korea to resume diplomacy with President Donald Trump.
The South Korean president has cast himself as the mediator between the U.S. and North Korea as they seek to break a deadlock over North Korea’s nuclear program and the establishment of a more stable peace on the Korean Peninsula. The specifics of the agenda for the three-day summit aren’t clear, though South Korean officials have said they want to discuss inter-Korean engagement projects and ways to facilitate stalled nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang.
An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.
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