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...But over the past four years, South Korean president Moon Jae-in, a former human rights lawyer and the child of North Korean refugees, has staked his legacy on making reunification a priority....
...Since 2018, he has attended summits with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, and South Korea’s Moon Jae-in as well as three meetings with Mr Trump....
...South Korean president Moon Jae-in will meet his US counterpart Donald Trump on Thursday for their first meeting since the failed Hanoi summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a desperate effort to...
...Ms Pak said....
...Pak Pong Ju, the 80-year-old premier since 2013, has also been replaced by the little-known Kim Jae Ryong, who was a communist party leader in a mountainous province....
...Moon Chung-in, an adviser to South Korean president Moon Jae-in, said the trust Mr Trump and Mr Kim were building was essential....
...Jung Pak, a former CIA analyst who has studied Kim Jong Un, said the outcome pointed to “the limits of personal rapport and the importance of process”....
...On Friday, he holds his first face-to-face talks with South Korea’s leader, Moon Jae-in. If all goes to plan, in a few weeks he will clinch the big prize: a meeting with Donald Trump....
...Citing an intelligence source, South Korean state news agency Yonhap also reported that North Korea had replaced defence minister Pak Yong Sik with a more moderate official....
...Jung H Pak, former CIA analyst who studied the North Korean leader, said Mr Kim was more reserved than during his meeting with Moon Jae-in of South Korea in April....
...In Seoul, Nam Gwan-pyo, a top official in the administration of President Moon Jae-in, said North Korea appeared to be “moving step by step toward denuclearisation”....
...Mr Kim’s interest in the Chinese model was further highlighted by his inclusion of Pak Pong Ju, a key official spearheading North Korea’s economic reform, in this week’s delegation to Beijing....
...“He hasn’t travelled, as far as we know, in the past six years,” says Ms Pak. “It has been pretty much Fortress Korea.”...
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