Kim Jong Un will walk across border for summit with Moon
Source: Associated Press
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon-Jae-in will plant a commemorative tree and inspect an honor guard together after Kim walks across the border Friday for their historic summit, Seoul officials said Thursday.
The talks on the southern side of the border village of Panmunjom are expected to focus on North Koreas nuclear program, but there will be plenty of symbolism when Kim becomes the first North Korean leader to be in the southern section of the border since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Moon will receive Kim after he crosses the concrete slabs that form the rivals military demarcation line Friday morning. They will then walk together for about 10 minutes to a plaza where theyll inspect a South Korean honor guard, Moons chief of staff Im Jong-seok told reporters.
After signing the guestbook and taking a photo together at Peace House, the venue for Fridays summit, the two leaders will start formal talks at 10:30 a.m. (0130 GMT). They will later plant a pine tree on the border using a mixture of soil from both counties mountains and water from their respective rivers. The tree, which is beloved by both Koreas, dates to 1953, the year the war ended, Im said.
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Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)He is going to walk for 10 minutes. Trump would want a golf cart.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)as soon as possible. He wants to take all the credit for what is happening.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Although Trump has already said they have his "blessing".
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)political prominence of the Korean military has 99% to do with peace breaking out...the other part is the imploding nuclear test site mountain.
America? 30,000 troops and Trump sit by impotently. As it should be.