Korea-US summit fact sheet could be released Friday: sources

A joint summit document on trade and security between Seoul and Washington could be released as early as Friday, sources said Thursday. Ruling party officials, who are familiar with the matter, said the two countries were fine-tuning the joint fact sheet, which outlines the outcome of the Oct. 29 summit talks between President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump, and were reviewing when to announce it. Kang Hoon-sik, the presidential chief of staff, addressed the matter, saying "Discussions are going well with careful attention to detail." "We will be able to present favorable outcomes to the people," he told reporters before departing for the United Arab Emirates earlier in the day as a special envoy for strategic economic cooperation. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun asked U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help speed up the planned release the previous day on the sidelines of the Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting in Canada, amid a protracted delay in the announcement. The joint fact sheet is meant to outline the details concerning what the two leaders have agreed upon, iWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times