SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s departing president, Moon Jae-in, exchanged farewell letters with North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, both governments announced on Friday, capping a checkered relationship filled with highs and lows and currently locked in a diplomatic stalemate.
Moon, 69, who is barred by law from seeking reelection, will step down on May 10 after a single five-year term. In his letter sent Wednesday, he urged Kim to use “dialogue to overcome the era of confrontation” on the divided Korean Peninsula, according to Moon’s spokeswoman, Park Kyung-mee.
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