Moon mission: What is behind Seoul’s peace drive?


Special bond: No other leader from the South was allowed to set foot on the sacred Mount Baekdu like Moon did with Kim. — AFP

Standing alongside North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the brightly lit May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, in front of a 150,000-strong crowd, South Korean President Moon Jae-in made history as the first leader from the South to deliver a rousing public address there.

He promised to remove all threats of war and nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula together with Kim, so future generation of Koreans can get to enjoy peace.

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