By Satuk Bugra Kutlugun
ANKARA (AA) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed the historic Korea summit on Friday, saying he would talk to South Korean President Moon Jae-in about the issue on his May 2 visit.
In a shared post on Twitter, Erdogan said: “I welcome the meeting of South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and North Korea leader Kim Jong-un today at Panmunjom.
“I will address this important issue with President Moon during my upcoming visit to Seoul on May 2, ” he wrote.
Erdogan also said he supported the “historic ” step regarding the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and hoped it would be successful.
The leaders of North and South Korea agreed on Friday for a “complete denuclearization” and lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, according to local media reports.
The deal followed a historic bilateral summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the Joint Security Area of Panmunjom in the South.
“The two leaders solemnly declared […] that there will be no more war on the Korean Peninsula and a new age of peace has dawned, ” they said in a joint declaration after the summit, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
They also reaffirmed the countries' earlier agreement for “a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula through complete denuclearization”.
Yonhap said the two Koreas agreed to push for three- or four-way talks involving the U.S. and China to replace the cease-fire agreement that brought the Korean War to a tentative close in 1953.
