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Korean Summit Delayed by One Day: South Korea
North Korea has asked for a one-day delay in the historic summit between the leaders of their two countries due to technical reasons, the presidential Blue House said Sunday.
The three-day summit was scheduled to begin on Monday in Pyongyang, but North Korea sent a message late on Saturday saying it needed more time to prepare, a Blue House spokesman said.
"So the summit will be held from Tuesday to Thursday," the spokesman said.
South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and his 180-member delegation-- including 50 South Korean journalists--were to fly directly to Pyongyang, the first South Korean flight to land in North Korea since the 1950-53 Korean War.
President Kim is expected to have two to three meetings with his counterpart, Kim Jong-il, in the first face-to-face meeting of rival Korean leaders since the war of the 1950s.
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