By DPA
Seoul : The leaders of South and North Korea will hold their second ever summit meeting later this month, South Korea’s president’s office said Wednesday.
South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun will travel to Pyongyang from August 28-30 for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong II.
The first such inter-Korean summit was held in June 2000. Talks are expected to revolve around achieving peace on the Korean peninsula and ending North Korea’s nuclear programme.
The six nations involved in the nuclear talks – the US, Russia, China, Japan and the two Koreas – met in Seoul Tuesday to discuss the logistics of shipping energy aid to North Korea as part of a February deal to shut down the communist nation’s nuclear reactors. South Korea began the first energy shipments last month.