SEOUL, South Korea — When President Moon Jae-in of South Korea sits down Tuesday with Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, for their third summit meeting, they will share a common goal: fashioning a political statement this year declaring the end of the Korean War. For that and other reasons, the United States has strong reservations about such a breakthrough. The 1950-53 war has never been formally ended with a peace treaty. Instead, it was halted with a truce after three years of combat between American-led United Nations forces defending the South and the Communist troops of North Korea and China. For decades, North Korea has made a peace treaty a central demand in its negotiations with Washington over ending its nuclear weapons program.

Source: New York Times September 17, 2018 09:11 UTC