South Korean President to send special envoy to Pyongyang next week

South Korean President Moon Jae-in will send a special envoy to Pyongyang next week to discuss plans to hold a summit with the North's Kim Jong Un and nuclear disarmament. 

Yonhap news agency, citing a presidential spokesman today said that the unnamed envoy will visit the North's capital city on Wednesday. 

Presidential spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom said Seoul proposed the envoy's visit today morning



and Pyongyang accepted it a few hours later. 

Kim said the envoy will have broad discussions over a detailed schedule for the inter-Korea summit, development of bilateral ties and nuclear disarmament of the Korean peninsula. 

Moon and Kim have met face-to-face twice now, the first during a historic summit at the border truce village of Panmunjom in April.