PYONGYANG/SEOUL, Sept. 18 -- South Korean President Moon Jae-in landed in Pyongyang on Tuesday for a much-anticipated three-day summit with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s top leader Kim Jong Un.
Moon stepped out of the plane in the morning to a smiling Kim and a grand welcome ceremony, an obvious gesture of goodwill from the DPRK side amid mixed prospects for the denuclearization talks between the DPRK and the United States.
Moon has said that one of the main aims of his visit is to revive the stalled DPRK-U.S. talks on denuclearization, but observers are divided over the prospects for dialogue on the peninsula.
Nevertheless, the economic side of the summit on Tuesday offers hope for concrete results, which could potentially be a good starting point for injecting fresh momentum into the peace talks on the peninsula.
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Moon and Kim met for about two hours from 3:45 p.m. local time (0645 GMT) in the main building of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Kim said in his introductory remarks that he felt he and Moon had become very close. Moon said "the spring of Panmunjom became the fall of Pyongyang," referring to the place of their three meetings this year, South Korean media reports said.
Moon is the first head of state from South Korea to visit Pyongyang in 11 years. They had met for the first time on April 27 at the truce village of Panmunjom on the border, followed by a second surprise summit on May 26.
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