Today in Pyongyang, for the first timeafter a long break, negotiations between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun are due to begin . They discuss issues of ensuring peace on the Korean Peninsula and helping the southerners to the northerners. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (he is South Korean) promised full support for the second inter-Korean summit, which will last three days. According to Roh Moo-hyun, his visit will contribute to the success of negotiations on the DPRK nuclear issue with the participation of the two Korean states, China, Russia, the United States and Japan. Now negotiators are developing a “road map” for the decommissioning of the North’s nuclear facilities, receiving compensatory assistance for this, which Seoul was the first to provide.
Roh Moo Hyun intends to walk part of the demarcation zone that divided North and South after the Korean War of 1950-1953, and he must go to Pyongyang, accompanied by his wife and ministers, by car from the border North Korean city of Kaesong. There is an inter-Korean industrial complex built by the decision of the first summit - the Pyongyang meeting between Kim Jong Il and then South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in June 2000. Then the guest arrived by plane, and both leaders agreed that inter-Korean relations should be built on the principle of “peace - independence - reunification.”
