The two leaders have agreed to begin "a new age of peace"
The meeting between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in marks just the third time that leaders of the two Koreas have met.
The historic summit, where the two sides pledged to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons, was the first time that an international audience got an unfettered glimpse of Kim Jong-un and his personality.
Hence, perhaps unsurprisingly, it was also a meeting with several symbolic and unusual moments.
1. Why they met on the South Korean side
North Korea had agreed that the supreme leader would meet Moon Jae-in on the South Korean side of Panmunjom. This harkened back to a remark made by late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung to Kim Jong-il at the first inter-Korea summit in June 2000 in Pyongyang.
Kim Dae-jung, who was 17 years older than the then North Korean leader, pointed out that the onus was on the younger man to visit the older man, and that it would be appropriate for Kim Jong-il to reciprocate and visit South Korea.
source:www.bbc.com
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