ASIA-KOREA DIPLOMANCY: North and South Korea announce end of Korean War
This screen grab from the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) taken on April 27, 2018 shows North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in shaking hands at the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries at Panmunjom.
(AFP PHOTO / KOREAN BROADCASTING SYSTEM (KBS) / MANILA BULLETIN)
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North Korea and South Korea has finally ended the decades-long Korean War with an announcement made by South Korean President Moon Jae-in today. / Updated By MB Online
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North Korea says ‘historic meeting’ opens ‘new era for peace’
The inter-Korean summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in was a “historic meeting” that paved the way for the start of a new era, Pyongyang’s state media said Saturday.
The official KCNA news agency said it was a “historic meeting that has opened a new era for national reconciliation and unity, peace and prosperity”, and carried the text of the leaders’ Panmunjom Declaration in full.
This picture taken on April 27, 2018 shows North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in (R) bidding farewell during a closing ceremony of the inter-Korean summit in the truce village of Panmunjom.
(AFP PHOTO / Korea Summit Press Pool / Korea Summit Press Pool / MANILA BULLETIN)
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In the document, the two leaders “confirmed the common goal of realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula”.
That phrase was included in the KCNA text as well.
For years, Pyongyang insisted it would never give up the “treasured sword” of its nuclear arsenal, which it says it needs to defend itself against a possible US invasion.
But it has offered to put it up for negotiation in exchange for security guarantees, according to Seoul — although Kim made no public reference to doing so at Friday’s spectacular summit.
When Kim stepped over the military demarcation line that divides the peninsula he became the first North Korean leader to set foot in the South since the Korean War hostilities ceased in 1953 with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
He then persuaded Moon to step into the North, and the two leaders shared a day of smiles, intimate moments, and a half-hour-long one-on-one conversation. / Published By Agence France-Presse/ All photographs, news, editorials, opinions, information, data, others have been taken from the Internet ..aseanews.net |
