South Korea to Encourage New Tripartite Meetings with Washington and Pyongyang to Break "Deadlock"

The South Korean Government will lead the celebration of the new three-way meetings with the United States and North Korea in order to relaunch the dialogue on denuclearization after the failure of the Hanoi summit, announced Monday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kang Kyung-wha.

At a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) chaired by the head of the South Korean state, Moon Jae-in, the official said that Seoul will seek to organize meetings with the multilateral dialogue format this has been called "via 1.5"and that includes heads of the three countries and experts from the private sector.

The three countries held such a meeting in Sweden just before the Hanoi summit that last week led North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. North Korean denuclearization.

At Monday's meeting, Moon also defended his belief that "North Korea and the United States will reach an agreement in the end".

"However, I ask you to work to find a quick restart of working meetings between the two parties because we do not want this blocking situation to continue.Moon added, as stated in his press release at the end of the meeting.

Pyongyang and Washington give different versions of what each party put on the table, but the Hanoi nomination clearly showed that plans for disagreement on the number of facilities and badets of the North Korean nuclear program to dismantle and the volume of international sanctions against the communist regime relieve in return.

The South Korean president also insisted that it was important that Washington and Pyongyang avoided creating tensions after the lack of agreement and stressed that this indicates progress in the future .

Moon, who played a key role in mediating between the White House and the regime, said the Seoul intermediary role would be more important than ever and called on his cabinet to accurately identify "agreement" and to find a way to "reduce the said differences".

(With EFE information)