A symbolic tree was planted on the North-South Korean border during the groundbreaking summit

Reuters South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un planted a commemorative pine tree “as an expression of wishes for peace and prosperity” during their diplomatic summit on Friday — their first in more than a decade. Moon and Kim applied a mixture of soil and water from the mountains and […]

The Korean unification flag is nearly everywhere ahead of the North-South summit — and Japan is fuming

Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters Depictions of the full Korean Peninsula are on full display ahead of the inter-Korean summit on Friday. Japan’s foreign ministry has lodged a formal complaint about the use of the Korean unification flag which depicts a pair of disputed islands between Japan and South Korea. The flag is set to be featured […]