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SEOUL • South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha is seeking to arrange a meeting with her North Korean counterpart Ri Yong Ho when both are in Singapore this week for the Asean Regional Forum (ARF), according to the Yonhap news agency
The ARF taking place on Saturday will be the first time North Korea's Foreign Minister meets his counterparts from Asean and other partners since the warming of the two kings between Pyongyang and Washington this year.
The ARF is the only Asia-Pacific consultative group in which North Korea is a member.
It follows other Asean-related sessions, including Asean-South Korea foreign ministers' meeting on Friday, and Asean Plus Three and East Asia Summit ( EAS] talks to the next day.
North Korea is expected to send Mr Ri to the ARF, Yonhap reported yesterday. He represented North Korea at last year's ARF, which was held in Manila.
Mr Ri was part of the North Korean delegation when Mr Kim Jong Un, who is chairman of North Korea's State Affairs Commission, traveled to Singapore in June for his President of the United States Donald Trump
If the foreign ministers of the two Koreas were to meet, it would be the first such meeting in 11 years. Then South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon puts his North Korean counterpart Park Ui Chun in 2007, reported the Donga Ilbo.
Dr. Kang is also likely to sit together with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who will be in Singapore for the asean and dialogue partners China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand, United States and Russia.
It remains unclear whether Mr Ri and Mr Pompeo will be bilateral or trilateral talks involving Dr Kang
The Donga Ilbo said expectations are rising that the possible talks could be injected into the nuclear industry between Pyongyang and Washington.
If the tripartite meeting was carried out, it could provide to the 1950-53 Korean War, According to Yonhap.
The Donga Ilbo said the creation of a working group for denuclearization could be on the agenda.
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