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SEOUL -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hosted South Korean envoys in what the North called a "satisfactory" meeting and dinner at the headquarters of the North's ruling Workers' Party, a spokesman for Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday.
It marked the first time for the communist state to invite South Korean officials to the headquarters of its powerful ruling party, according to Cheong Wa Dae spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom.
The meeting and dinner started at 6 p.m. Monday and lasted more than four hours. The South Korean envoys, led by the chief of the presidential National Security Office Chung Eui-yong, arrived in Pyongyang earlier that day seeking to broker talks between the North and the United States.
The dinner also involved Kim's highly veiled wife, Ri Sol-ju, Kim Eui-kyeom told a press briefing. Also present at Monday's meeting and dinner was the North Korean leader's younger sister, Yo-jong, who traveled to the South last month to deliver her brother's message for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, inviting him for what would be a third inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang.
The North's state media earlier said the country's supreme leader and the South Korean envoys discussed various issues, including the proposed summit, and that they reached a "satisfactory agreement". Any details of the agreement could not immediately be verified with Cheong Wa Dae saying it too has not yet received a full report of the meeting.
(Yonhap)
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