US nuclear envoy to attend unification forum Tuesday

By Yi Whan-woo

The visiting U.S. nuclear envoy Sung Kim will attend the Korean Global Forum 2015 in Seoul, Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Unification, Monday.

The ministry will co-organize the event with the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at The Shilla Hotel Seoul in Jangchung-dong, it said.

The annual forum since 2010 is aimed at promoting a peaceful unification of the two Koreas.

This year’s event will draw over 200 participants, including 24 government officials and private analysts.

Kim, also Washington’s former envoy to Seoul, will join several ambassadors to South Korea, such as Rolf Mafael from Germany and Krzystof Majka from Poland.

Kim is on a three-day visit to South Korea until Wednesday. He met South Korea’s top nuclear envoy Hwang Joon-kook in Seoul, Monday, according to diplomatic sources,

He will travel to Japan from Thursday to Friday before returning home.