Kim is shooting for a Nobel peace prize.
Via Daily Mail:
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has embraced Kim Jong Un as the two leaders met for their third summit this year.
Hundreds of people in colourful dress and waving unification flags lined the tarmac at Pyongyang international airport where Kim supervised missile launches last year as tensions mounted.
Moon is seeking to reboot stalled denuclearisation talks between North Korea and the United States.
The two leaders hugged on the tarmac after Moon disembarked from his Boeing 747 aircraft, which displayed the South’s own emblem as it landed on Tuesday.
After the pair embraced, they travelled from the airport by car. Welcoming President Moon and his wife to his country, Kim said: ‘We hope you feel at home. We can talk more in the afternoon.’
‘Let’s open an era of peace and prosperity with the solidarity of one people,’ read a hoarding displayed outside the terminal.
Moon’s plane had taken off from the military’s Seoul Air Base for the 80-minute flight to the North Korean capital, with the president and his wife smiling and waving to well-wishers before boarding.
Moon – whose own parents fled the North during the 1950-53 Korean War – is on a three-day trip, following in the footsteps of his predecessors Kim Dae-jung in 2000 and mentor Roh Moo-hyun in 2007.[…]
Moon will be accompanied by several business tycoons – including Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong and the vice chairman of Hyundai Motor – and is scheduled to visit key sites in Pyongyang with his delegation.
He has been pushing inter-Korean economic cooperation but several South Korean newspapers urged caution Monday, with the Korea Herald calling the businessmen’s presence on the trip ‘untimely.’
‘It is better to postpone economic projects involving the North until after negotiations to remove its nuclear program make substantial progress,’ it said in an editorial.
And investment in the North was ‘fraught with risks and uncertainty,’ it added.
But Moon’s office said the inclusion of the businessmen was ‘not special,’ given the heads of major conglomerates had been in Pyongyang for the previous inter-Korean summits in the city.
Other issues on Moon’s agenda include improving inter-Korean ties and easing military tensions on the peninsula.
Seoul said that could lay the groundwork for a formal declaration on the Korean War, when hostilities ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty – implying that such an announcement was unlikely during the trip.