Huge peace progress for Koreas


A cartoon depicting South Koreas president Moon Jae-in embracing US president Donald Trump and North Koreas leader Kim Jong Un is displayed outside a shopping centre in Seoul on September 19, 2018. - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make a historic visit to Seoul in the near future, he said as the two Koreas knitted closer ties at a summit in Pyongyang despite limited progress on the key nuclear issue. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)

PYONGYANG: South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have announced a sweeping set of agreements after their second day of talks in Pyongyang, including a promise by Kim to permanently dismantle the North’s main nuclear complex if the United States takes corresponding measures, the accep­tance of international inspectors to monitor the closing of a key missile test site and launch pad and a vow to work together to host the Summer Olympics in 2032.

Declaring that they had taken a major step toward peace on the Korean Peninsula, the two leaders were side by side as they announced the joint statement to a group of North and South Korean reporters after a closed-door meeting yesterday morning.

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