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.
In context
Also in 2018 (6 other events on record)
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