Korea summit economic pledge raises sanctions-busting fears


  • World
  • Wednesday, 19 Sep 2018

FILE PHOTO - Samsung group Vice Chairman Jay.Y Lee and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won meets with North Korea’s deputy prime minister for economic affairs Ri Ryong Nam, in Pyongyang, North Korea, September 18, 2018. Pyeongyang Press Corps/Pool via REUTER

SEOUL (Reuters) - A pledge by the leaders of North and South Korea to foster economic ties has heightened worries among sceptics that Seoul's push to revive nuclear talks could undermine the sanction regime credited with bringing Pyongyang to the negotiating table.

Speaking at a joint news conference in Pyongyang on Wednesday, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to the normalisation of the Kaesong joint border industrial park and tours to North Korea's Mount Kumgang.

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