Top DPRK leader Kim greets RoK's Moon at airport

9/18/2018 - 10:48:17 AM

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).

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.

Source: NDO

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