N.K. propaganda workers on pilgrimage to Mt. Paekdu Members of a propaganda unit of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party march in a long line on a study tour of Mount. Paekdu in this photo released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Dec. 11, 2019. The mountain is regarded by the North as a sacred place where the current leader’s late grandfather and state founder, Kim Il-sung, staged an anti-Japanese fight during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. (Yonhap)
President Moon has returned to South Korea after a photo shoot with Kim Jong-un on North Korea’s highest mountain, Mt. Paekdu:
South Korean President Moon Jae-in (2nd from R) and his wife, Kim Jung-sook, (R) pose for a photo with their North Korean counterparts Kim Jong-il and Ri Sol-ju during their joint trip to Mount Paekdu in North Korea on Sept. 20, 2018. (Joint Press Corps-Yonhap
South Korean President Moon Jae-in returned home Thursday after a three-day trip to North Korea for his third summit with leader Kim Jong-un.
Moon arrived at Seoul Air Base at 5:36 p.m., about two hours after his flight left North Korea’s Samjiyon airport near Mount Paekdu.
His departure from the North came after a joint trip with Kim to Mount Paekdu that highlighted the success of their bilateral summit in Pyongyang. [Yonhap]
You can read more at the link, but it is expected that President Moon will next turn his attention on President Trump to get him to drop sanctions in return for North Korea’s “Pretend Denuclearization“.
