North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has promised the South’s President Moon Jae-in no more missile-related early morning wake-up calls, Seoul said.
Last year Pyongyang carried out 20 ballistic missile tests, almost all of them in the early hours of the morning.
Moon routinely summons his National Security Council immediately after such events, and the timing has ensured officials, diplomats and journalists in Seoul have regularly been jolted awake.
But when he met Seoul’s envoys this week a jovial Kim pledged not to disrupt Moon’s slumbers any more.
“I’ve made up my mind today and President Moon does not have to be disturbed from sleep with early morning wake-up calls,” he was quoted as saying by an official of Seoul’s presidential Blue House.
At the four-hour meeting on Monday, Kim agreed to hold a summit with Moon in April, expressed his desire to meet US President…
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