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"This confidence, despite some of the difficulties that have emerged during the negotiation process between the United States and the North, will continue," said South Korean special envoy Chung Eun-yong, who met Kim in Pyongyang on Wednesday.
Chung said Kim had told him that North Korea "is ready to take more active action in favor of denuclearization if its advance measures can be put in place with corresponding measures (from the United States). ".
Kim said that he had "never said anything wrong to President Trump to anyone," Chung said, adding that the North Korean leader had expressed the wish to end 70 years of hostilities on the Korean peninsula.
Chung had just returned from a trip to the north to finalize plans for a meeting between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-In, to be held in Pyongyang from September 18 to 20. Capital of North Korea since 2007 and the third meeting between the two men this year.
The North Korean state media also reported on the results of Chung's trip to Pyongyang. He said that Chung had sent a letter to Kim from Moon, and said Kim "remained unchanged in his determination to strive to quickly improve the results of his compatriots."
State media also quoted Kim calling on Seoul and Pyongyang to "continue their efforts to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula".
"Noting that it is our firm position and Kim's (Kim's) resolve to completely eradicate the danger of armed conflict and horror from the Korean Peninsula War and turn it into a cradle of peace without nuclear weapons and nuclear threats. ", North and South should redouble their efforts to achieve the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," KCNA reported.
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Trump recently canceled a planned trip by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Pyongyang, saying the timing was wrong. Washington has also accused China of undermining its efforts to maintain "maximum pressure" against North Korea and force it to negotiate a denuclearization.
The stalemate allowed South Korea to take the reins, and Moon again called for rescuing the negotiations as he had done before the Trump and Kim summit in June.
"South Korea can really play the cop for the bad police in Washington, listening to the hard line of denuclearization of Trump," said last month Oliver Hotham, editor of the Korea Risk Group. "There is certainly a disagreement between Seoul and Washington about how quickly this whole peace thing should go, but this disagreement actually helps this dynamic in many ways."
But analysts warn that continued improvements in inter-Korean relations could see a break between Seoul and Washington if they do not want to continue negotiations with Pyongyang or try to return to Trump's original bellicose posture.
