S Korea's Moon to meet N Korea's Kim to find ways to denuclearise Korean Peninsula

The eyes of the world will be on Pyongyang on Tuesday as South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korea's Chairman Kim Jong-un are slated to meet for their third summit talks, seeking to accelerate the process of denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.

Prior to the third Inter-Korean Summit in 2018, the two leaders have met each other in April and May, both times in truce village of Panmunjom.

Moon has stressed that the South Korean government's role is "to find the point of agreement between the US and North Korea so that the two countries can accelerate conversation and speed up denuclearisation".

Although conflicts and confrontations have raged between the two Koreas across the DMZ (demilitarized zone) for over 65 years, an atmosphere of dialogue and exchange and cooperation was fostered temporarily between the two countries following the summits held in 2000 and 2007.

"The upcoming event is the first inter-Korean summit to be held in Pyeongyang in 11 years, since the summit in 2007," said Cheong Wa Dae (Blue House) spokesperson Kim Eui-kyeom. "President Moon Jae-in is fulfilling an item of the Panmunjeom Declaration in which he promised to visit Pyeongyang this fall."