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1st LD: Top DPRK leader reaches "satisfactory" agreement with envoy over S. Korean president's intention for summit

Xinhua,March 06, 2018 Adjust font size:

PYONGYANG, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has made "a satisfactory agreement" with the South Korean envoy over a summit intention, Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday.

"Hearing the intention of (South Korean) President Moon Jae-in for a summit from the special envoy of the south side, he (Kim) exchanged views and made a satisfactory agreement," said the report.

"He (Kim) gave the important instruction to the relevant field to rapidly take practical steps for it," it said.

Kim received Moon's special envoy, Chung Eui-yong, top national security advisor for Moon and head of the National Security Office of the Blue House, shortly after the South Korean delegation arrived here Monday.

Chung handed Kim a personal letter from Moon, said the report.

The 10-member delegation includes Suh Hoon, director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Vice Unification Minister Chung Hae-sung, Second Deputy NIS Director Kim Sang-gyun, and Yun Kun-young, a senior Blue House official. Enditem