Historic South Korea president's visit to North Korea has been delayed due to "technical reasons".
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Korean summit delayed by one day, says
South Korea
June 11, 2000
Web posted at: 9:54 a.m. HKT (0154 GMT)
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) -- North Korea has asked for a one-day delay in
the historic summit between the leaders of their two countries due to technical
reasons, the presidential Blue House said on Sunday.
The three-day summit was scheduled to begin on
Monday in Pyongyang, but North Korea sent a
message late on Saturday saying it needed more
time to prepare, a Blue House spokesman said.
"So the summit will be held from Tuesday to
Thursday," the spokesman said.
South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and his
180-member delegation -- including 50 South
Korean journalists -- were to fly directly to
Pyongyang, the first South Korean flight to land in North Korea since the
1950-53 Korean War.
President Kim is expected to have two to three meetings with his enigmatic and
reclusive counterpart, Kim Jong-il, in the first face-to-face meeting of rival
Korean leaders since the war |
