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North ready to abolish missile sites if U.S. takes matching action: South Korea President
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- North Korea had agreed to ”permanently” abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts.
- It is willing to close its main nuclear complex if the United States took reciprocal action, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in.
- They also agreed to pursue a bid to co-host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games, and actively work together in other international competitions including the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
- The latest summit will be a litmus test for stalled negotiations on the North's nuclear programme between Pyongyang and Washington, and for another meeting Mr. Kim recently proposed to U.S. President Donald Trump following their historic meeting in June in Singapore.
- Mr. Moon was seeking to engineer a proposal that combines a framework for the North's denuclearisation and a joint declaration ending the 1950-53 Korean War.
- The United States is pressing countries to strictly observe international sanctions.
- This summit is intended to craft concrete steps to implement the Panmunjom Declaration, named after the border village where they first met.
- The two Koreas also adopted a separate military accord aimed at preventing armed clashes between the old foes, which are technically still at war because the Korean War ended with a truce, not a peace treaty.
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The Hindu