• Kim Jong-un today will become the first North Korean leader to cross the border into South Korea’s territory, starting a historic summit meeting with President Moon Jae-in that will demonstrate his willingness to trade away his nuclear weapons. The talks, which will be the third summit meeting between the Koreas, could produce a peace agreement to formally end the Korean War of the 1950s. But they’re mostly seen by experts as a prelude to a meeting between Mr. Kim and President Trump. (A potential wrench: The parents of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died after being jailed by North Korea, filed a suit against Pyongyang.) And here’s a short history of the inter-Korean talks and a visual guide to the Korean War.

Source: New York Times April 26, 2018 20:01 UTC