South Korean president heads to North for summit with Kim 13 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy the Associated PressSEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Moon Jae-in left for Pyongyang on Tuesday for his third summit of the year with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the presidential Blue House said. His Pyongyang trip makes him the third South Korean leader to visit North Korea’s capital for an inter-Korean summit since the peninsula was divided into a Soviet-backed north and U.S.-backed South at the end of World War II in 1945. The two countries fought a bloody three-year war five years later after a North Korean sneak attack. North Korea is pushing for a peace treaty with the United States to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 18, 2018 00:11 UTC