Tag: Koreas

Two Koreas connect DMZ road across border: Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North and South Korea have connected a road across their shared border for the first time in 14 years, Seoul’s defense ministry said Thursday in the latest reconciliation gesture between the neighbors. The dirt road, which is wholly within the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula, will be used for joint operations next year to recover remains from the 1950-53 Korean War. The 12-meter-wide construction of the route in Cheorwon, […]

JUST IN: Moon and Kim to meet at military demarcation line Friday — Seoul

  SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un will meet at the Military Demarcation Line that divides the peninsula for their summit Friday, Seoul said, in an occasion laden with symbolism. Moon will greet his visitor at the concrete blocks that mark the border between the two Koreas in the Demilitarized Zone, the chief of the South’s presidential secretariat Im Jong-seok said.