Seoul, Washington To Launch Working Group On N. Korea This Week
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 18, 2018 | 05:18 PM
SEOUL, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Nov, 2018 ) :South Korea and the United States are expected to launch a new consultative body to coordinate their efforts on denuclearization of North Korea this week, diplomatic sources said here Sunday.
They said Seoul and Washington have agreed in principle to hold the first meeting of the bilateral "working group" during the upcoming visit to the US capital by Lee Do-hoon, Seoul's top nuclear envoy.
Lee, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, will be in Washington from Monday to Wednesday.
According to the sources, Lee will be joined by officials from the unification ministry and the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae who will be part of the working group.
Lee and his US counterpart, Stephen Biegun, will represent their respective sides for the working group.
The new consultative body is expected to discuss preparations for a planned meeting between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Yong-chol.
The working group is also expected to go over inter-Korean exchange programs, including a proposed joint survey of cross-border railway lines. The Koreas had planned to conduct the inspection in October but the U.S. expressed concerns that the inter-Korean relations were improving faster than denuclearization talks with Pyongyang.
A Seoul government official told South Korean correspondents in Washington last Thursday that South Korea and the US could narrow their differences through their new working group and it would open the doors for the joint railway survey.
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