South Korean President Moon Jae-in has said that his country will make all-out efforts to let the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States hold talks before the U.S. presidential election in November. 

Moon made the remarks during a video conference with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, which was held on Tuesday to discuss ways to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, the South Korean presidential Blue House said Wednesday. 
  
A Blue House official, who declined to be identified, told a press briefing that Moon said during the video conference that he will make efforts to maintain a dialogue momentum among the two Koreas and the United States. 
  
Moon was quoted as saying South Korea will make all-out efforts to let the DPRK and the United States sit face-to-face for dialogue before the U.S. presidential election. 
  
When asked whether the DPRK-U.S. talks means a summit, the senior Blue House official said "yes." 

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Denuclearization talks between the DPRK and the United States have stalled since the second summit between top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump ended without any agreement in February 2019 in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. 

The last face-to-face meeting between Kim and Trump took place in Panmunjom on June 30, 2019 during the U.S. president's visit to South Korea. 
  
Tensions escalated on the Korean Peninsula after the DPRK demolished the inter-Korean joint liaison office building in the DPRK's border city of Kaesong last month in protest against anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent across the border by South Korean civic group activists, mostly defectors from the DPRK. The DPRK has also cut off all communication lines with South Korea. 
  
The Blue House official told reporters that since the destruction of the Kaesong liaison office, the security offices of the Blue House and the White House have closely communicated. 
  
The official noted that President Moon's thought about the DPRK-U.S. talks was already delivered to the U.S. side, which also empathized with the thought.

Stephen Biegun, the top U.S. envoy for the DPRK issue, said on Monday that another Trump-Kim summit is unlikely before the November election in the United States. 

"I think it's probably unlikely between now and the U.S. election," he said in response to a question about the possibility of Trump and Kim meeting again. 

Biegun stressed that the U.S. goal remains the "final and complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." 

China has urged the U.S. to take "concrete actions" to address DPRK's "legitimate concerns."  

"Building mutual trust and breaking the impasse on the peninsula requires concrete actions," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on June 12, the second anniversary of the first Trump-Kim summit in Singapore. 

"The U.S. side should take concrete actions to implement the consensus reached by the DPRK and the U.S. leaders, respond to the DPRK's legitimate concerns on development and security, and safeguard the hard-won situation of amelioration and dialogue on the Korean Peninsula."

(With input from Xinhua)