US envoy arrives in Seoul to address tension with Pyongyang over military maneuvers

The United States’ special envoy to North Korea, Kim sang, He arrived in Seoul on Saturday to discuss with his South Korean and Russian counterparts how to bring Pyongyang back to the dialogue table in the face of renewed tension over the maneuvers..

Kim, who in addition to managing relations with the North is the US Ambassador to Indonesia, begins four-day visit to South Korea after the North protested the military exercises Seoul and Washington began on Monday and threatened with “great security crisis“For your celebration.

“I think it will be a very productive visitThe US diplomat said upon arrival at Incheon International Airport, according to statements collected by the local news agency. Yonhap.

Kim is due to meet with South Korean nuclear negotiator Noh Kyu-duk next Monday., to find a way to progress in blocked negotiations on denuclearization with the North Korean regime and talks for the establishment of lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.

North and South remain separate after 1950-53 civil war, which ended in an armistice never replaced by a peace treaty, so the territory is technically still at war.

The US envoy is also due to meet with the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Igor Morgulov, which will also arrive in Seoul in the next few hours.

Morgulov will arrive in South Korea for a six-day visit and is expected to hold bilateral talks with Noh next Tuesday.

No trialogue meeting has been organized yet, according to the South Korean government.

Visit by nuclear negotiators comes at a time of growing concern because North Korea is carrying out some kind of weapons test to protest the aforementioned maneuvers, based on computer simulations and not on field exercises.

Pyongyang has issued an alert maritime exclusion on its northeast coast earlier in the week, a ship alert that is usually issued before missiles are launched, although none have been detected.

Seoul and Washington hold regular military exercises, mainly in the spring and summerExercises that Pyongyang has been protesting for decades, seeing them as a simulated invasion of its territory and, therefore, a threat to its sovereignty.

In several messages posted last week, North Korean regime accused allies of “wasting” opportunity of an approach to maintain maneuvers despite his efforts at dialogue and once again cut off his direct communication with Seoul, which he had reactivated on July 28 after cutting it off a year ago.

(With information from EFE)

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