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Seoul Expects Moon-Trump Talks on N Korea to Have 'Meaningful' Outcome

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said on Monday that she expected talks between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, set to be held in Washington on Thursday, to have a "meaningful" outcome for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
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"As the presidents meet each other for another dialogue momentum, I expect a meaningful result to come out," Kang told reporters, as quoted by the Yonhap news agency.

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Moon and Trump will meet on Thursday for the first time after the collapse of the second denuclearization summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which was held in Vietnam in late February. The sides are set to discuss the latest developments in the situation around North Korea, along with US-South Korean bilateral ties, at their meeting.

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While the Trump-Kim summit was largely expected to produce a denuclearization agreement, it was fruitless, since Trump walked away from talks after Kim demanded full removal of sanctions without pledging to denuclearize the sites that the United States wanted.

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