Summit Talks Between Korea and U.S. to be Held In November

Korean president Roh Moon-hyun and his American counterpart, George W. Bush will discuss overall pending issues between the two nations at a summit meeting to be held during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit period in Chile this November.

Kim Suk, the Foreign Ministry’s Director of North American Affairs, released that South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon met with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell at a Korea-U.S. ministerial-level meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York City on Thursday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting and reached an agreement to hold a summit meeting between the two nations.

The director added that Powell had agreed when Ban had suggested, “Let’s have an open discussion on pending issues between the two leaders at an APEC summit talk this November.”

Kwon-Heui Hong konihong@donga.com