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Koreas Summit

May 6 , 2018 2395 days 1007 0
  • The North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agreed to work to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons.
  • Inter-Korean summits are meetings between the leaders of North Korea and South Korea. There have been three such meetings so far (in 2000, 2007, and 2018).
  • The 2018 inter-Korean summit was held on 27 April 2018 in South Korea's portion of the Joint Security Area, it was the third summit between South and North Korea
  • It saw Mr.Kim become the first North Korean leader to set foot in South Korea since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
  • It is only the third time leaders of the two Koreas have met since an armistice agreement ended the Korean War in 1953, and the first time a summit has taken place in the South.
  • The two leaders said they would pursue talks with the US and China to formally end the Korean War, which ended in 1953 with a truce, not total peace.
  • The two are holding talks in the demilitarised zone as part of the first inter-Korea summit in more than a decade. The meeting centered on the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula that is "a nuclear-free Korean peninsula" and a permanent peace deal between the two countries.
  • Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un signed a three-part declaration in the Peace House, pledging to sign a peace treaty to formally end the war between North and South Korea this year.
  • The declaration states that the Koreas will work towards reunification and establish a communications post in Kaesong, North Korea. The countries will also organize a family reunion to be held on August 15.

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