{"id":44389,"date":"2018-05-27T11:31:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T11:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=44389"},"modified":"2018-05-27T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T11:31:27","slug":"2-korean-leaders-meet-inside-dmz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=44389","title":{"rendered":"2 Korean leaders meet inside DMZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"International desk: South Korea said President Moon Jae-in met with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday inside the Demilitarised Zone dividing the two nations, a day after US President Donald Trump said his summit with Pyongyang could still go ahead.<\/p>\n

The Blue House, South Korea's presidential office, said the two leaders held talks for two hours in the truce village of Panmunjom, where they had met last month and made a declaration vowing to improve ties, reports AFP.<\/p>\n

“They exchanged views and discussed ways to implement the Panmunjom Declaration and to ensure a successful US North Korea summit,” the Blue House said in a statement, adding Moon would make a personal statement on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

On Thursday Trump cancelled his upcoming meeting with Kim which had been due to take place in Singapore on June 12 — only to reverse course a day later and say it could still go ahead after productive talks were held with the North Korean oficials.<\/p>\n

The original decision to abandon the historic summit blindsided South Korea which had brokered a remarkable detente between Washington and Pyongyang after months of Kim and Trump trading insults and threats of war.<\/p>\n

Pictures released by the Blue House showed Moon shaking hands with both Kim and his sister Kim Yo Jong, who has played a major public role in recent talks with the South, including leading a delegation across the border during February's Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

The meeeting between Moon and Kim took place in a grand building on the North Korean side of Panmunjom, a surreal and heavily fortified village that lies between the two countries and marks the spot where the armistice ending the Korean War in 1953 was signed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International desk: South Korea said President Moon Jae-in met with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday inside the Demilitarised Zone dividing the two nations, a day after US President Donald Trump said his summit with Pyongyang could still go ahead. The Blue House, South Korea’s presidential office, said the two leaders held talks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n