Biden and Xi have known each other for years.

Even if South Korea grants permission for them to access the complex.If the issue is not resolved by the end of this year.

and requested access to the complex six times.Ministry spokesman Baik Tae-hyun said Wednesday that it would continue reviewing their request with the collaboration of interested parties.President Moon Jae-in is of a similar opinion that the reopening of the complex will be realized rapidly once the North Korean sanctions are lifted.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in a New Year address that he is willing to reopen the complex and resume tourism to Mount Geumgang in the North for nothing.The unification ministry said it also shares the same perception on the need to resume the operation of the complex.

chairman of the Corporate Association of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex.

/ YonhapBy Lee Min-hyungSouth Korean businesspeople who invested in the Norths Gaeseong Industrial Complex.The two sides are fine-tuning the details for the meeting slated for the latter half of next week

one of the diplomatic sources said.will co-chair a video conference on the denuclearization issue after months of silence.

and his American counterpart Stephen Biegun provide a briefing on their 2nd working group meeting on North Korea at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Jongno-gu.diplomatic sources in Seoul said Saturday.