North and South Korea's Push for Peace
Their leaders pledged to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons and to officially end the Korean War. But the South Korean leader has previously warned against “excessive eagerness to fix all problems at once.”
Updated at 9:42 a.m. ET
The leaders of North and South Korea pledged Friday to remove all nuclear weapons from their peninsula and vowed to work toward an official end to the Korean War.
The meeting between Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae In contained many firsts: Kim became the first North Korean leader to ever step inside the South. And in an apparently unscripted moment, the North Korean leader invited Moon to step across the demarcation line that divides their two countries. They did so together, holding hands, and then stepped back into South Korea.
“South and North Korea confirmed the common goal of realizing,
