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On a line without fire
The DPRK leader Kim Jong -un and President of South Korea Moon Jae in are negotiating in the demilitarized zone. According to CNN, the summit began on Friday morning in the border village of Phanmunge.
Kim Jong -un stepped over the concrete line of demarcation and shook his hand in the South Korean president. After warm greetings, he suggested Moon Jaus to cross the line in the opposite direction, and both leaders, holding hands, stepped into the territory of the DPRK, and then back. After that, they proceeded along the red carpet along the company of honorary guard and entered the "House of the World". Kim made an entry in the book of honored guests about the "new page of history" and the beginning of the peaceful era.
The meeting in the "House of the World" began with a welcome jokes of Kim. He promised the South Korean president no longer disturb his morning dream with missile launches.
Negotiations will last all day, their main topics - denuclearization of the peninsula, peaceful settlement and improvement of bilateral relations.
The first round of negotiations ended at about noon to local time. Kim Jong -un in the limousine returned to the territory of the DPRK. After lunch, negotiations will continue.
Kim Jong -un became the first North Korean leader to step on the land of South Korea. This is the third intercorean summit in history.
“Going here, I thought: why was it so difficult to get here? It turned out to be so simple to step over the dividing line, but it took 11 years (the previous summit took place in 2007. - Ed.),” Said Kim Jong -un before the negotiations. The South Korean president, in turn, welcomed his decision to hold a meeting. “We could not communicate for the last seven decades, so today we will talk all day,” Moon Zhe in the world agencies quoted. According to him, the demarcation line from this moment has become a symbol of not discord, but peace.
In the negotiations, the sister of the North Korean dictator Kim Yo Zhon, who headed the delegation of Pyongyang at the Olympics in Pyeongchang, participates. After January 3, Kim ordered to start negotiations with South Korea, Kim Yo Jeon handed Moon Jae to a personal letter to her brother with an invitation to visit Pyongyang . A telephone line was opened between the two countries. An agreement on the conduct of the summit was reached in early March during the visit of the South Korean delegation to Pyongyang.