South Korea president says ready to meet North Korea leader

SEOUL, January 12. /TASS/. South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Monday she is ready to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without any preconditions to establish talks with Pyongyang. This meeting would be able to lay groundwork for a possible peaceful reunification of two Koreas, she said. “I can meet with anyone I want to if necessary to pave the way for peaceful reunification,” Park Geun-hye told a news conference. North Korea should show frankness of its intentions and take steps for making the Korean Peninsula nuclear-free, the South Korean president said. In 2000 and 2007, two inter-Korean summits were held at which the then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il met with the then South Korean presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun. North Korea has earlier agreed to abandon its nuclear weapons-making programmes. However, in 2006, 2009 and 2013, the country conducted underground nuclear tests, after that the United Nations has imposed sanctions on Pyongyang. Read more