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 by Staff Writers Seoul (AFP) April 27, 2018
The leader of nuclear-armed North Korea Kim Jong Un and the South's President Moon Jae-in said they were committed to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula after a historic summit Friday. "South and North Korea confirmed the common goal of realising, through complete denuclearisation, a nuclear-free Korean peninsula," they said in a joint statement. They also agreed that they would this year seek a permanent end to the Korean War, 65 years after the hostilities ended in an armistice, rather than a peace treaty. The two Koreas will seek meetings with the United States and possibly China -- both of them parties to the ceasefire -- "with a view to declaring an end to the War and establishing a permanent and solid peace regime", the statement said. Moon would visit Pyongyang "in the fall", the two leaders said, agreeing also to hold "regular meetings and direct telephone conversations". There would also be a reunion of families left divided when the Korean War ended, one of the most emotive issues for the people of the two countries. "South and North Korea agreed to proceed with reunion programmes for the separated families on the occasion of the National Liberation Day of August 15 this year," they said in a statement, referring to Japan's surrender at the end of World War II. Around 57,000 families in the South still have members in the North.
North Korea nuclear test site part-collapsed: Chinese experts Beijing (AFP) April 25, 2018 North Korea's underground nuclear test site has partially collapsed following a massive bomb blast last year, making it unusable, Chinese seismologists have concluded. The North's leader Kim Jong Un declared last week that his regime would halt nuclear and long-range missile tests and shut down its nuclear site at Punggye-ri under Mount Mantap in the country's northeast. The offer came days before his summit this Friday with the South's President Moon Jae-in, which is scheduled to be followed by ... read more
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