President Moon Jae-in is en route to Argentina for this year's G20 Summit.
While he's in South America,... the South Korean leader will hold one-on-one talks with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.
The crunch meeting comes as the denuclearization process hangs in the balance with the lines of communication between Pyeongyang and Washington appearing to fall silent in recent weeks.
Shin Se-min reports.
The summit between Presidents Moon Jae-in and Donald Trump of the U.S. is confirmed.
Following the announcement by the White House,... South Korea's Presidential Office, too, says that the leaders will be meeting on the sidelines of the Group 20 Summit in Argentina this weekend.
"South Korea and the U.S. will focus on ways to pursue complete denuclearization and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula-- all while working to boost bilateral cooperation."
The exact time and date, though, have not yet been confirmed... given both leaders' packed schedules in Buenos Aires.
But it will be their first meeting since September in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly... and their sixth in total.
It's believed that Seoul and Washington are keeping so closely in touch because of the lack of concrete outcomes in North Korea's denuclearization -- and now that a high-level meeting between the North and the U.S. has been delayed for weeks.
And it's expected that the summit in Buenos Aires might see President Moon play the role of mediator once again... to get the seemingly stalled talks back on track.
In the meantime, on President Moon's first stop in the Czech Republic, he sat down with Prime Minister Andrej Babis, and the two discussed issues of mutual interests as well as South Korea's bid to build a nuclear reactor for the country.
"Spanning continents,... the president's trip now takes him to Argentina... along with some of the world's most important leaders.
For South Korea, the main focus is on the meeting between Presidents Moon and Trump -- and the hope that they will lift the cloud of uncertainty on diplomacy with North Korea.
Shin Se-min, Arirang News, Prague."
