[%%IMAGE1%%]<p>  Blue House National Security Office director Chung Eui-yong returned to South Korea on Mar. 15 after a whirlwind two week diplomatic tour across two continents. Chung and NIS Director Suh Hoon met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang on Mar. 5 before travelling to Washington, D.C. to brief US President Donald Trump on the results of their meeting with Kim on Mar. 8. Following their talk with Trump, the pair announced that the US President had accepted Kim’s invitation for a summit, tentatively scheduled to take place in May.</p><p>Chung has spent the past week in China and Russia, enlisting the cooperation of Chinese and Russian leaders in diplomatic endeavors to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and establishing a permanent peace regime between South and North Korea.</p>

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[Photo] Chung Eui-yong wraps up his March “special envoy diplomacy” tour

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