SEOUL: Summits between North and South Korea are closely watched for each spectacular symbolism — on grand display on the Panmunjom summit in April — and smaller hints of which means.
Tuesday's assembly between the South's President Moon Jae-in and the North's chief Kim Jong Un — their 3rd thus far this yr, however Moon's first commute to Pyongyang as president -- was once no exception. Here are 5 things we have realized thus far.
Kim's more youthful sister Yo Jong, whom he sent to the South's Winter Olympics as his particular envoy, has emerged as considered one of his closest advisers and is steadily observed at his side at public occasions. But she is creating a bent to stray into shot.
At the primary Panmunjom summit, she walked in the back of Moon and her brother, who had been differently by myself at the red carpet, till she all of sudden peeled away.
And once more at Pyongyang airport she in short joined them on a platform where they had been to observe a welcome ceremony, before drifting into the cameras' imaginative and prescient a number of times as the two leaders and their wives made their way past well-wishers.
All main South Korean tv channels carried wall-to-wall protection of Moon's arrival in Pyongyang, showing the airport occasions are living and then switching to studio statement and dialogue till the following pictures gave the impression.
But the North's media is tightly managed, even if reporting occasions in the country itself, and incessantly eschews are living broadcasts, who prefer to show recorded pictures.
As Kim and Moon embraced at the tarmac the North's major state tv channel showed only a check card, with eight unchanging vertical blocks of color.
The unification flags waved by means of North Koreans on the airport showed a map of the peninsula, clearly together with Dokdo, islands managed by means of Seoul however claimed by means of Tokyo.
When an identical flags had been used ahead of the Winter Olympics in the South, Japan rapidly protested, and Seoul hastily came up with an alternate version without the blue specks.
But Pyongyang is strongly nationalistic and continuously denounces Japan's 20th-century colonisation of the peninsula and its wartime atrocities.
A weekend statement at the legitimate KCNA information company condemned Tokyo as a "political dwarf", including that Pyongyang was once "keenly watching Japan adding more crimes to the past ones and will have Japan pay dearly for them".
In their constitutions each North and South Korea declare sovereignty over the entire of the peninsula.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Republic of Korea -- the North and South's legitimate names -- had been based 70 years in the past however each still technically regards the other as an unlawful entity.
Relations between them are treated by means of Seoul's unification ministry and Pyongyang's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country, relatively than their international ministries.
As such, a adventure between them would not be thought to be a global flight. And when Kim stepped onto the tarmac to welcome Moon, he emerged from a door marked "Domestic departure".
Kim and Moon were given into separate cars at Pyongyang airport before riding away.
But by the point the convoy arrived on the Paekhwawon State Guesthouse where Moon and his closest advisers are staying -- the title method "100 different flowers bloom" -- they had been in the same open-topped car.
It later emerged that they had switched cars at the edge of the town and paraded in combination past hundreds of citizens coated up along the streets.
"Reunification of the country!" the crowds chanted in unison, as the motorcade drove past the Kumsusan Palace where Kim's predecessors -- his father and grandfather -- lie in state.
Tuesday's assembly between the South's President Moon Jae-in and the North's chief Kim Jong Un — their 3rd thus far this yr, however Moon's first commute to Pyongyang as president -- was once no exception. Here are 5 things we have realized thus far.
Kim's more youthful sister Yo Jong, whom he sent to the South's Winter Olympics as his particular envoy, has emerged as considered one of his closest advisers and is steadily observed at his side at public occasions. But she is creating a bent to stray into shot.
At the primary Panmunjom summit, she walked in the back of Moon and her brother, who had been differently by myself at the red carpet, till she all of sudden peeled away.
And once more at Pyongyang airport she in short joined them on a platform where they had been to observe a welcome ceremony, before drifting into the cameras' imaginative and prescient a number of times as the two leaders and their wives made their way past well-wishers.
All main South Korean tv channels carried wall-to-wall protection of Moon's arrival in Pyongyang, showing the airport occasions are living and then switching to studio statement and dialogue till the following pictures gave the impression.
But the North's media is tightly managed, even if reporting occasions in the country itself, and incessantly eschews are living broadcasts, who prefer to show recorded pictures.
As Kim and Moon embraced at the tarmac the North's major state tv channel showed only a check card, with eight unchanging vertical blocks of color.
The unification flags waved by means of North Koreans on the airport showed a map of the peninsula, clearly together with Dokdo, islands managed by means of Seoul however claimed by means of Tokyo.
When an identical flags had been used ahead of the Winter Olympics in the South, Japan rapidly protested, and Seoul hastily came up with an alternate version without the blue specks.
But Pyongyang is strongly nationalistic and continuously denounces Japan's 20th-century colonisation of the peninsula and its wartime atrocities.
A weekend statement at the legitimate KCNA information company condemned Tokyo as a "political dwarf", including that Pyongyang was once "keenly watching Japan adding more crimes to the past ones and will have Japan pay dearly for them".
In their constitutions each North and South Korea declare sovereignty over the entire of the peninsula.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Republic of Korea -- the North and South's legitimate names -- had been based 70 years in the past however each still technically regards the other as an unlawful entity.
Relations between them are treated by means of Seoul's unification ministry and Pyongyang's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country, relatively than their international ministries.
As such, a adventure between them would not be thought to be a global flight. And when Kim stepped onto the tarmac to welcome Moon, he emerged from a door marked "Domestic departure".
Kim and Moon were given into separate cars at Pyongyang airport before riding away.
But by the point the convoy arrived on the Paekhwawon State Guesthouse where Moon and his closest advisers are staying -- the title method "100 different flowers bloom" -- they had been in the same open-topped car.
It later emerged that they had switched cars at the edge of the town and paraded in combination past hundreds of citizens coated up along the streets.
"Reunification of the country!" the crowds chanted in unison, as the motorcade drove past the Kumsusan Palace where Kim's predecessors -- his father and grandfather -- lie in state.
Five things about the North-South summit in Pyongyang
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