The Guardian: Pyongyang calling: North and South Korean leaders get hotline as stage set for summit
Officials prepare for greeting on live TV between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in, the first such event in more than a decade
A hotline between the leaders of North and South Korea went live on Friday, a week before they are due to hold a historic summit on the border that has separated their countries for more than six decades.
As preparations for the meeting gathered pace, South Korean media reported that the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, would talk over the phone before they meet next Friday.
The summit will take place on the southern side of the demilitarised zone, a heavily armed strip of land that that has divided the peninsula since hostilities in the Korean war ended in 1953.
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