South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), held a commemorative event to plant a pine tree, hoping for peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula.
韩国总统文在寅与朝鲜最高领导人金正恩共同种下一棵松树,希望给朝鲜半岛带来和平与繁荣。
The two leaders started their afternoon schedule with the tree-planting ceremony, after having formal, closed-door talks for over an hour and a half in the morning at the Peace House, on the South Korean side of the border village of Panmunjom, which has divided the Korean Peninsula since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
The pine tree was planted beside a path near the military demarcation line (MDL), along which late Hyundai Group
founder1 Chung Ju-yung in 1998 delivered a total of 1,001 cows to the DPRK farmers to help improve inter-Korean relations.
Moon and Kim used a mixture of soil and water from both countries. The pine tree dates back to 1953, the year the Korean War ended in an
armistice2. The peninsula
technically3 remains4 at war.
Engraved5 on the stone
plaque6 for the tree are a phrase "Peace and Prosperity Are Planted," and signatures of the two leaders.
After the tree-planting ceremony, Moon and Kim took a stroll along the Footbridge to talk
privately7 with no one accompanying them. At the end of the bridge stands a signpost of the MDL
symbolizing8 the division of the two sides.