North Korea keeps mum on summit invite as its delegation completes South visit


  • World
  • Sunday, 11 Feb 2018

Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, is greeted by South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon, as President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea Kim Young Nam looks on before a banquet in Seoul, South Korea February 11, 2018. Yonhap via REUTERS

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's delegation sent to the Winter Olympics held "frank and candid" talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the North Korean news agency said on Sunday, but it made no mention of the North's invitation to Moon to Pyongyang for a summit.

The delegation, the highest-ranking to visit the South and led by the younger sister of the North's leader Kim Jong Un, concluded its visit on Sunday after charming and intriguing the South Korean public, but still faces deep scepticism over Pyongyang's sincerity towards improving relations.

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