30.06.2019
By Byeon Giseong
President Moon Jae-in, President Trump and Kim Jong-un met in Panmunjeom at 3:50 pm today (Sunday June the 30th 2019). Just a year and two months ago the inaugural North-South summit was held in the same location. Additionally this is the first time that the US ([represented by Donald Trump]) has [directly] attended a North-South summit.
Analysis: Completely unprecedented scenes today at Panmunjeom on the Korean DMZ as Donald Trump chats casually with Mun Jaein of South Korea and North Korea’s Gim Jeongeun. The slightly chaotic, informal atmosphere of the press scrum seen in the video belies the massive significance of this meeting – surely the most striking visible symbol of progress between North Korea and the rest of the world in decades. Trump won’t receive any credit from his detractors, but Mun will surely welcome this distraction from the highly damaging real-estate graft allegations which are dogging the upper echelons of his party.