First chance to build peace in 65 years

Just as President Michael D Higgins told a United Nations meeting in New York that Ireland’s peace process could inspire countries to talk rather than go to war, the leaders of North and South Korea announced that they would work together to rid their peninsula of nuclear weapons.

The welcome news came after a historic summit at Panmunjom “truce village”, on the southern side of the Koreas’ demarcation line.