North Korea's about-face complicates South Korea's pitch to Trump


  • World
  • Friday, 18 May 2018

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the first enlarged meeting of the seventh Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang May 18, 2018. KCNA/via REUTERS

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in has been riding high after a string of successes with North Korea, seeing his popularity surge after his historic meeting with Kim Jong Un as he looks ahead to the U.S.-North Korea summit he helped engineer next month.

But just days before a key meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Pyongyang has made Moon's role as a diplomatic go-between much harder, calling his government "ignorant and incompetent" and pulling out of inter-Korean talks.

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