Moon, Trump to hold summit on April 11 in Washington
Moon will arrive in the U.S. on April 10 and hold a summit with Trump the following day, the seventh of its kind, his office said, Yonhap reports.
It will be their first meeting since the breakdown of last month's summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi.
"The leaders will have in-depth talks to discuss ways to strengthen the Seoul-Washington alliance and to coordinate their stance on setting up a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula through complete denuclearization," Yoon Do-han, senior secretary for public relations, said at a briefing.
Their meeting comes after Trump and Kim ended the Hanoi summit without any agreement due to differences on the scope of North Korea's denuclearization and sanctions relief by Washington.
The U.S. said the North demanded the lifting of sanctions "in their entirety" in exchange for its offer to dismantle only the main Yongbyon nuclear complex. Washington wants denuclearization in other areas, reportedly including uranium enrichment facilities hidden elsewhere.
But the North claimed that it only demanded partial relief of sanctions linked to people's livelihoods and that the U.S. pressed the North to do more in addition to removing the Yongbyon facilities.
The U.S. said it remains open to dialogue with North Korea despite the summit breakdown, and will seek denuclearization talks while maintaining pressure and sanctions on the North.
The summit comes amid concerns that Seoul's possible push for resumption of key inter-Korean projects may deepen a rift with Washington, which is maintaining its pressure campaign on North Korea until it gives up nuclear weapons.
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