South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plan to hold their third summit, announcing on Monday that they will meet in Pyongyang sometime in September.

"For peace and prosperity of the world as well as those of the Korean peninsula," reads a short issued by South Korea's Blue House on Monday, after diplomatic delegations from the estranged nations met in the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss the idea of a new summit.

The announcement comes two months after President Trump met with Kim Jong Un in Singapore for a summit that generated promises of Korean denuclearization and improved relations — as well as skepticism over the two longtime enemies' willingness to recast their relationship.

North Korea recently returned the possible remains of U.S. troops from the Korean War. But questions remain over how far the country will go to idle its nuclear weapons program.

While a cease-fire exists between the U.S. and North Korea due to an armistice, the two governments never agreed to a truce to declare peace after the Korean War.

"Pyongyang appears to want a speedy declaration of an end to the 1950-53 Korean War," NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Seoul for our Newscast unit. "Washington wants North Korea to be more forthcoming about its nuclear weapons stockpiles, production facilities and a timetable for getting rid of them."

After North Korea demolished a nuclear test site in May, satellite images showed the country had also begun dismantling a missile site – but in late July, reports emerged that North Korea is building new ballistic missiles at a factory just outside its capital.

Last week, North Korea complained that some high-level U.S. officials were "going against the intention of President Trump" by sticking to "old scenarios" and taking a hard line on maintaining sanctions on the country.

Details of the new summit's timing are not yet public. As The Korea Herald reports, on Sept. 9, North Korea will celebrate 70 years of existence under the regime that was founded by Kim Jong Un's grandfather, Kim Il Sung.

Next weekend, the two Koreas will continue their program of using sports to bring their countries closer together, as they plan to send a united basketball team to the Asian Games being held in Indonesia. The basketball team follows in the steps of the unified women's ice hockey team at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

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