If needed I will fly to Washington immediately.
South Korean internet users on Thursday shared photos of Moon waving off a presidential employee and taking off his own jacket at a luncheon.
Moon praised Modi for his leadership, saying India was becoming a global leader on various worldwide issues, including North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
WASHINGTON-The recently elected liberal leader of South Korea is seeking warmer ties with North Korea, clashing with the Republican in the White House intent on snuffing out the North's nuclear weapons program.
Moon told Xi that it would be easier to settle the missile-defense issue if North Korea wasn't engaging in provocations, the statement said.
It may welcome a controlled boost in economic ties - or even a bilateral summit in its capital under the right conditions, an idea Moon has already floated - but its primary worry is likely to remain national security.
The U.S. and North Korea aren't now involved in any diplomacy.
"Over the past 20 years, we have tried all kinds of engagement with North Korea, including the Kaesong Industrial Complex", Kim, the expert from the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, said. Moon has a very different perspective, believing confrontation has done nothing to stop North Korea from expanding its nuclear arsenal.
Moon began his duties earlier in the day by receiving a briefing about North Korea from Army Gen.
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School officials have declined to release the video, but a report newly obtained by the Enquirer describes its content. The boy's mother was asked to pick him up and take him to a hospital "to be checked out", the statement said.
North Korea says it needs its weapons to defend itself against the United States which it says has pushed the region to the brink of nuclear war.
"How to respond to North Korea ... is an urgent issue. I would like to closely cooperate with the president to achieve the denuclearisation of North Korea", Abe told Moon.
But Abe also said "dialogue for dialogue's sake would be meaningless" and he called on North Korea to demonstrate "sincere and concrete action", Hagiuda said, adding that Moon shared Abe's views.
Mr Moon had a 40-minute conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, his spokesman Yoon Young-Chan told reporters, with the two agreeing denuclearising Pyongyang was a "common goal" between them.
China is strongly against the THAAD installation in South Korea due to how its perceived as a threat to their naval forces. China contends the system's radar ranges into its territory and threatens its security.
Moon expressed his hope for a meeting with Modi in the near future.
In the first direct contact between the South Korean and Chinese leaders, Xi explained China's position, Yoon, the South Korean presidential spokesman said, without elaborating. -South Korea partnership survived. Moon visited the national cemetery where he honored the country's former presidents, indep.
Moon was part of the liberal Roh Moo-hyun administration involved in the last inter-Korean summit of 2007, although almost a decade of conservative rule in Seoul has seen ties sour to the point of zero cooperation amid persistent North Korean nuclear and missile tests.
South Korea's past decade of conservative rule has encouraged smooth relations with the U.S. Moon's more liberal approach could fuel tensions, as happened under a liberal South Korean government in the 2000s.
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