By EDITORIALMore by this AuthorGlobal ‘bad boy’ North Korea has, in the past two years, demonstrated an admirable drift towards rejoining the community of nations. Though suspicion between the nuclear power state and the world’s only superpower, the US, still runs deep, Pyongyang must be commended for the overtures of giving dialogue a chance. The formerly recluse North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has become quite the traveller and a willing host to strategic high profile guests. Early this year, he travelled to China for a meeting with President Xi Jinping and on February 27-28, had another meeting with President Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam. On the first anniversary of his first meeting with Kim last week, President Moon pledged continued outreach to North Korea, saying the path to peace on the Korean Peninsula was irreversible.

Source: Daily Nation April 30, 2019 21:11 UTC