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Kim Jong Un's sister says inter-Korean summit possible with 'respect'
It was the second statement in two days by Kim Jong Un's sister and key advisor Kim Yo Jong.
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This picture taken on January 7, 2019 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 8, 2019 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) and his wife Ri Sol Ju leaving Pyongyang Station to visit China. Kim Jong Un is on a four-day visit to China to meet President Xi Jinping, Chinese and North Korean state media said on January 8, after a special train was reported to have been seen crossing the border. The North's leader, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol Ju and several senior officials set off from Pyongyang station on board his private train on January 7, the Korean Central News Agency reported.
(AFP/KCNA VIA KNS)
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he influential sister of North Korea's leader said in a statement on Saturday that an inter-Korean summit could take place, but only if mutual "respect" and "impartiality" are guaranteed.
It was the second statement in two days by Kim Jong Un's sister and key advisor Kim Yo Jong.
She had on Friday urged Seoul to end its "hostile policies" towards Pyongyang after South Korea's president called for declaring an official end to the state of war with the North.
The 1950-53 war between the two Koreas ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, leaving Seoul and Pyongyang technically at war for over half a century.
An inter-Korean summit between her brother and the South's Moon Jae-in could be held "only when impartiality and the attitude of respecting each other" are guaranteed, Kim said in a statement carried by Pyongyang's official KCNA news agency.
She also said a summit, as well as discussions on a declaration to end the war, could be held "at an early date through constructive discussions".
"There is no need for the North and the South to waste time faulting each other and engaging in a war of words," she added.
