Moon Jae-in the President of South Korea has been invited by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday for a summit in Pyongyang, Seoul said.
Kim Yo Jong the sister of Kim Jong was the bearer of the invitation, and stated Kim was ready to meet “at the earliest date possible”, said a spokesman for the presidential Blue House.
“We hope to see you in Pyongyang at an early date,” Kim Yo Jong told Moon after delivering the letter.
“We want to see President Moon become a protagonist in opening a new chapter for reunification and leave great footprints in history” she said.
Moon did not immediately accept the invitation. But the prospect could cause a divide with South Korea who has long argued for a physical engagement with the nuclear-armed North to bring it to the negotiating table, and US President Donald Trump, who last year traded personal insults and threats of war with Kim.