Republic of Korea (ROK) President Moon Jae-in will directly fly across the western maritime border to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the upcoming summit with DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, Seoul's presidential Blue House said on Friday.
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Kwun Hyuk-ki, director of the Blue House press center, told a televised press briefing that Moon and his delegation will visit Pyongyang on a direct flight across the western inter-Korean sea boundary.
It came after senior officials from the two sides held preparatory talks earlier in the day for the Moon-Kim summit, scheduled to be held in the DPRK's capital Pyongyang on Sept. 18-20.
ROK's advance team for the summit will be dispatched to the DPRK on Sept. 16 on a land route.
The two nations agreed to broadcast live the first gathering in Pyongyang of the two leaders and their major summit schedules.
The preparatory talks lasted for five hours through 2 p.m. local time (0500 GMT) without a break at the truce village of Panmunjom.
Details on the dialogue agenda between Moon and Kim and the exact list of the delegation accompanying Moon were not disclosed yet.
(Cover: ROK's President Moon Jae-in speaks during an interview at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, June 22, 2017. /VCG Photo)