This archive report was first published on 1 July 2019.
On June 30, 2019, a historic meeting took place in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump.
The meeting, which was initiated by Trump's Twitter invitation the day before, marked the first time a US president set foot on North Korean soil.
According to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the two leaders agreed to 'resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.'
Kim and Trump shook hands over the concrete blocks dividing North and South before Trump walked a few paces into Pyongyang's territory.
"The top leaders of the DPRK and the US exchanging historic handshakes at Panmunjom" was an "amazing event", KCNA said, describing the truce village as a "place that had been known as the symbol of division".
The meeting came at a time when negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington over the North's nuclear programme were at a deadlock.
Trump said after the meeting that they had agreed working-level talks on the North's arsenal would take place within weeks.
