Koreans celebrate summit anniversary
North and South Korean officials today pledged to cooperate and pursue eventual unification as they celebrated the fifth anniversary of a summit between their leaders under the shadow of the international stand-off over the North’s nuclear ambitions.
The celebrations in the North’s capital mark the June 15, 2000 joint declaration of the unprecedented meeting between North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and then-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in Pyongyang – the first and only such talks since the Korean War ended in a 1953 ceasefire.
