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Two Koreas’ leaders hold second summit: Cheong Wa Dae
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This picture taken on April 27, 2018 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 28, 2018 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (2nd L) and his wife Ri Sol Ju (L) attending a farewell ceremony with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (2R) and his wife Kim Jung-sook (R) at the end of their historic summit at the truce village of Panmunjom. North Korea on April 28 hailed its summit with the South as a (AFP /KCNA via KNS)
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resident Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Saturday held their second summit at the truce village of Panmunjeom following their first meeting in April, according to South Korea’s presidential office.
In a text message sent to reporters, presidential chief press secretary Yoon Young-chan said the leaders of the two Koreas “candidly exchanged their opinions to implement the joint declaration of the first summit and to successfully hold the US-North Korea summit set for June 12 in Singapore.”
The summit took place from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Panmungak, a North Korean building inside Panmunjeom, Yoon said. The first summit was held at the Peace House, a South Korean building opposite Panmungak.
Cheong Wa Dae, however, declined to elaborate further and said details of the summit would be revealed Sunday by President Moon himself. It was a decisionmade by the two Koreas, Yoon said.
Reporters were not notified of the summit beforehand and it was only attended by the two Koreas’ incumbent and former spymasters: South Korea’s National Intelligence Service Director Suh-hoon and Kim Young-chul, former chief of the North’s Reconnaissance General Bureau.
