On March 6, a South Korean delegation returning to the North announced that a summit between the two sides will take place on the South Korean side of Panmunjom in late April. According to South Korea’s presidential national security advisor, the DPRK side expressed a “definite” interest in denuclearization because, “in case there is no military threat to North Korea and the North Korean system is secure, they would have no reason to possess nuclear weapons.”

Following U.S. demands that the DPRK express interest in denuclearization in order to facilitate bilateral talks between Washington and Pyongyang