Friday, 21 May 2021

Biden sends special envoy to South Korea to press North on nuclear arms

US president and South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in remain ‘deeply concerrned’ over relations with Pyongyang

US president Joe Biden said he and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in remain “deeply concerned” about the situation with North Korea, and announced he will deploy a new special envoy to the region.

After talks in Washington on Friday, Biden told a joint news conference with Moon that he was dispatching former US ambassador to Seoul, Sung Kim, to help refocus efforts on pressing Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

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