Contemporary · East Asia · Politics

2018

Korean leaders meet at the DMZ

April 27, 2018

Kim Jong Un stepped over the concrete border into South Korea, where Moon Jae-in waited with an outstretched hand. The two men strolled along a garden path, planted a tree, and signed a declaration for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Within months Kim would also meet Donald Trump in Singapore. The diplomacy went nowhere, but the symbolism was, briefly, electric.