The Republic of Korea (RoK)’s President Moon Jae-in arrived in Pyongyang Tuesday (September 18) morning and was received with a grand welcome ceremony led by Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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DPRK leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol Ju greet
RoK President Moon Jae-in and First Lady Kim Jung-sook at Pyongyang Sunan
International Airport, DPRK ahead of the third summit with DPRK leader Kim
Jong-un in this still frame taken from video on September 18, 2018. (Source:
KBS/Reuters TV/Reuters).
Kim and several senior officials, ceremonial guards and hundreds
of local residents welcomed Moon at the airport with flowers, national flags
and peninsula flags.
The two leaders shook hands and hugged and greeted each other
after Moon touched down.
This is the first inter-Korean summit in DPRK's capital
Pyongyang in 11 years.
The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that the
Pyongyang summit aims to implement the Panmunjom Declaration issued after the
first inter-Korean summit in April this year.
The Pyongyang summit "will offer an important opportunity
in further accelerating the development of inter-Korea relations that is
making a new history," the KCNA said.
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Source: NDO
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