{"id":78028,"date":"2018-04-27T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/the-two-korean-leaders-hold-historic-summit\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:43:19","slug":"the-two-korean-leaders-hold-historic-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/the-two-korean-leaders-hold-historic-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"The two Korean leaders hold historic summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/4- Apr\/27\/kim.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Kim Jong-un became the first North Korean Leader to cross into South Korean territory since the war ended in 1953.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Kim Jong-un and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, have come face to face at the inter-Korean meeting in the demilitarized zone.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said that Kim Jong-un arrived in South Korea at 9:30 am local time, crossing the demilitarized border zone of the two countries and was officially welcomed by his South Korean counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong-un had said before the start of the summit that &ldquo;Today, we are on the brink of a new historic start of peace and prosperity in the relationship between the Korean peninsulas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;This is the third meeting of the leaders of the two countries, however, for the first time, a North Korean leader has entered South Korea in 65 years.<\/p>\n<p>The White House issued a statement showing White House&rsquo;s optimism that the progress on North Korea&rsquo;s denuclearization talks would bring peace and prosperity for the Korean Peninsulas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un became the first North Korean Leader to cross into South Korean territory since the war ended in 1953. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}