The South Korean government held a tour Friday of a recently opened trail in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the North and South.

The government opened trails to the public in multiple areas inside the DMZ in late April, marking first the anniversary of the inter-Korean summit between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Access to the route, know as the Peace Trail, had been restricted to the public for decades.

During the hike along the coast, tourists can see North Korea's scenic Mount Kumgang.

Nam Yun-ho was moved while walking the Peace Trail. He was hopeful that inter-Korean relations will improve and that travel between the North and South will one day be possible.

Dozens of South Korean citizens participated in Friday's tour.

Goseong – 14 June 2019

1. Wide of DMZ Peace Trail

2. Various of tourists walking along the trail

3. Various of barbed wire fence

4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Nam Yun-ho, tourist:

"Although it is a short distance, I feel touched as I walk along the trail. The inter-Korean relations were getting better but now they are stalled again. I hope that the relations become reinvigorated so that we get to travel between the two countries freely."

5. Signboard showing a map of the peace trail course

6. Various of map

7. Soldier opening gate

8. Various of tourists

9. Wooden sign that reads (Korean): "DMZ Peace Trail"

10. Various of guide speaking to tourists

11. Various of trail

12. Various of mine warning sign

13. Tourist taking photo next to a stone that reads (Korean): "Northernmost End of Truce Line"

14. Close of sign that reads (Korean): "Pyongyang, 230km"

15. Various of soldiers

16. Wide pan of North Korean side over border

17. Various of North Korean post

18. Various of trail

South Korean negotiators on Tuesday made their way back across the DMZ (Demilitarised Zone) between the two Koreas, following rare talks with their North Korean counterparts.

The two rivals took steps toward reducing their bitter animosity in the talks, with North Korea agreeing to send a delegation to next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea and reopen a military hotline.

The meeting, the first of its kind in about two years, was arranged after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made an abrupt push for improved ties with South Korea following a year of elevated tensions with the outside world over his expanding nuclear and missile programmes.

The meeting's venue, Panmunjom, is the only place on the tense border where North and South Korean soldiers are just metres (feet) away from each other.

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Paju - 9 January 2018

++NIGHT SHOTS++

1. Various of the motorcade carrying the South Korean delegation crossing the Tongil Bridge near Panmunjom following their first formal dialogue with the North in more than two years

US President Donald Trump said Sunday the US and North Korea are in the "final stage of working out" the surprise quick meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone of the Korean border.

Trump made the remark in an expanded meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and officials of the two countries.

Trump and Moon have since confirmed that Trump will meet Kim at the border later on Sunday.

Trump arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a two-day visit, following his trip to Osaka for the G20 Summit.

The two leaders will hold a joint news conference following the luncheon, and Trump is scheduled to visit the demilitarized zone near the border after leaving the presidential office.

Seoul – 30 June 2019  

1. South Korean President Moon Jae-in arriving at expanded meeting

2. US President Donald Trump arriving at expanded meeting

3. Various of meeting

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

"I've been told that Kim Jong Un would like to meet and it looks like they're in the final stages of working out, just a very quick meeting. Because we are at the DMZ anyway at the border, we are at the DMZ. And I look forward to say hello if that all finally works out. I guess there is always a chance that it might work out, but it sounds like the teams  would like it to work out, so that's good."

5. Various of meeting

US President Donald Trump said Sunday the US and North Korea are in the "final stage of working out" the surprise quick meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone of the Korean border.

Trump made the remark in an expanded meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and officials of the two countries.

Trump and Moon have since confirmed that Trump will meet Kim at the border later on Sunday.

Trump arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a two-day visit, following his trip to Osaka for the G20 Summit.

The two leaders will hold a joint news conference following the luncheon, and Trump is scheduled to visit the demilitarized zone near the border after leaving the presidential office.

Seoul – 30 June 2019  

1. South Korean President Moon Jae-in arriving at expanded meeting

2. US President Donald Trump arriving at expanded meeting

3. Various of meeting

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

"I've been told that Kim Jong Un would like to meet and it looks like they're in the final stages of working out, just a very quick meeting. Because we are at the DMZ anyway at the border, we are at the DMZ. And I look forward to say hello if that all finally works out. I guess there is always a chance that it might work out, but it sounds like the teams  would like it to work out, so that's good."

5. Various of meeting

South Korean authorities have invited journalists to the venue of the upcoming inter-Korean summit talks in the border village of Panmunjom.

Journalists were invited for a tour of various places along the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) on Wednesday including the Joint Security Area (JSA) and Peace House.

The building located on the South Korean side of Panmunjom is set to be the site of a historic meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in later this month.

The 2018 inter-Korean summit is scheduled to take place on 27 April.

Panmunjom - 18 April 2018

1. Exterior of Peace House seen from South Korean side

2. Inscription on stone reading (Korean) "Peace House"

3. Various of building under construction

4. Windows

5. Exterior of building

6. Various of soldier

7. Exterior of building

8. Wide of Joint Security Area (JSA)

9. North Korean soldier standing guard

10. Close of gun

11. Sign above door reading (Korean) "Panmungak"

12. Soldiers guarding JSA

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA

SHOTLIST:

HOST BROADCAST - NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA

Panmunjom – 27 April 2018

1. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shaking hands

2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader:

"There are a lot of people hoping (for the best result). I am worried we will disappoint them if we do not follow up on any good agreements and announcements from the past meetings, and also if we do not make this meeting the opportunity to improve our relationship. Therefore I want to say that we should be more determined so we can look back at the lost 10 years and say it was not wasted. I hope we can meet frequently to solve problems between the two."

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4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Moon Jae-in, South Korean President:

"I hope we can have a conversation with big results in mind and reach an agreement, so we can give our citizens and everyone around the world, who hope for peace, a big gift."

++BLACK FRAMES++

6. Wide of summit

STORYLINE:

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held the first North-South Korea summit in more than a decade on Friday.

Kim said he's ready for "heartfelt, sincere and honest" talks with Moon on pending issues and that the Koreas must not repeat the past where they were "unable to fulfill our agreements."

Kim said he was worried they would disppoint people "if we do not follow up on any good agreements and announcements from the past meetings."

He added that he hoped the two could "meet frequently" to resolve issues.

Kim did not make any direct mention of the North Korean nuclear issue in the part of his talks with Moon that were shown on live television.

Moon in response there were high expectations surrounding the inter-Korean summit and that they produce an agreement that would please the people of Koreas and also "everyone around the world, who hope for peace."

Kim gave his younger sister Kim Yo Jong a place at the negotiating table.

She was in Kim's delegation as he walked across the line that divides the two Koreas on Friday morning and took a seat beside him as the first round of talks started.

The only other North Korean official present was former intelligence chief Kim Yong Chol, the top official in charge of relations with the South.

Kim Yo Jong has emerged as the most visible member of Kim Jong Un's regime after her brother - since she became the first member of the ruling North Korean family to travel to the South in early February for the Olympics.

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US President Donald Trump addressed members of the US military on Sunday at an American air base in Osan, just south of Seoul, South Korea, before ending his Asia trip and returning to Washington.

Trump recounted the moment when he stepped across the border at the demilitarised zone into North Korea and became the first sitting US president to do so.

He said he and North Korea's Kim Jong Un "had a very productive meeting".

He also said he tried to sell Kim on the prosperity he believes awaits North Korea if it gives up its nuclear programme.

During his remarks to the service members, Trump called up to the stage US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and, Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and a top White House advisor.

He jokingly called them "beauty and the beast."

Osan, Pyeongtaek - 30 June 2019

1. Helicopter carrying US President Donald Trump arriving at base

2. Trump stepping out from helicopter

3. Wide of Trump walking on stage

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

"The reason I met with (North Korea leader) Kim Jong Un. And we had a great meeting because we're all in this together and we want to get this thing solved. It's been going on for a long time. And we had a great meeting and it was unexpected. I put out yesterday maybe I'll meet with Chairman Kim and he saw it on social media. Pretty powerful thing, social media. And we just laughed and I said, 'You know? This was unexpected and we're going to keep a lot of thousands of great military people waiting.' But that's what you do. You love your country and it was a good thing to do." (applause)

5. Wide of Trump at podium

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

"As you know (South Korea's) President Moon (Jae-in) , in fact he just called me again. He's so happy, he is so thrilled. And we met at the DMZ (Korean Demilitarised Zone). It was something incredible - I got to see the DMZ. I got to see a lot of your fighting comrades.  And we talked them. In fact, I gave one little speech to a group of guys. I gave another little speech to a group. Then I met with Chairman Kim. Then I came out that I met with President Moon and I gave another speech to a group of guys. Now I'm giving this speech a big group of people (applause). But it is really very... we had a very productive meeting. I outlined the incredible prosperity that awaits North Korea when this whole thing gets settled. They've been talking about this for a long time. But that's a country with tremendous potential and I've had a good relationship with that with Chairman Kim. You know that you see what's happening. It's been a lot different. They were giving us a great briefing right at the DMZ and they said it was so different before we had the meeting, the big summit in Singapore it was different. It was really hostile. You understand it better than, it was really hostile. And since our first meeting in Singapore we got along, we got along we had a great kind of feeling. "

7. Wide of Trump on stage, zoom in to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Trump's daughter, Ivanka, coming on stage, UPSOUND (Trump) "What a beautiful couple, Mike,  beauty and the beast!"

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

"I actually stepped in with Chairman Kim, I stepped in to North Korea and they say (applause) that's a very historic moment. I think it is a historic moment and a very good moment. And he asked me, 'Would you like to do that?'  And I said, 'It would be my honour'. And we did and we went over the line and joked around and everybody was so happy. And many people I noticed from Korea were literally in tears crying, crying. This is a big thing, it's a big thing."

9. Trump waving to US military troops

Hundreds of people gathered in central Seoul on Saturday to either welcome or protest US President Donald Trump's visit to South Korea.

Anti-Trump protesters waved banners and posters, and chanted that Trump was unwelcome in South Korea.

Meanwhile pro-Trump protesters marched around central Seoul to call for a stronger US-South Korea alliance.

With regards to a possible meeting at the demilitarised zone between Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, people on both sides were unsure.

Anti-Trump demonstrator Han Kyeong-jun said although he hoped Trump and Kim meet, if Washington continued its anti-North sanctions then peace on the Korean Peninsula would be difficult to achieve.

Park Taewoo, a pro-Trump protester, said he doubted whether a meeting between the leaders would benefit South Korea and its "security interests".

Seoul - 29 June 2019  

1. Wide of protesters demonstrating against US President Donald Trump

2. Signs with caricatures of Trump

3. Anti-Trump protesters singing and punching air

4. Tilt up of anti-Trump protester with sign reading (English) "No Trump"

5. Banner reading (Korean and English) "Stop arms sales, stop sanction against N (North) Korea, no touch S (South) Korea, no threats to peace"

6. Wide of anti-Trump protesters

7. Anti-Trump protesters holding signs reading (English) "No Trump"

8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Han Kyeong-jun, anti-Trump protester:

"(US) President (Donald) Trump said he hopes to meet (North Korean Leader) Chairman Kim Jong Un at the DMZ (demilitarised zone). (North Korean) Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui also responded that the North is always open for meetings with the US. We are here today in hope that the peace establishes on the Korean Peninsula, and in doing so, it is very important that the leaders of the two countries (US and North Korea) meet. However, as the US has been doing so far, if it pushes for unilateral dialogue and maintains anti-North Korea sanctions, then I think it will be difficult to achieve."

9. Pro-Trump protesters marching past banner reading (English) "Our Republican Party welcomes US President Donald Trump"

10. Close of Trump's picture on banner

11. Pro-Trump protesters marching and waving US and South Korean flags

12. Pro-Trump protester marching with sign reading (English) "Stronger and greater, US-ROK (Republic of Korea) alliance"

13. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Park Taewoo, pro-U.S. protester:

"President Trump is ahead of the presidential election next year, so he might be trying to show that he is doing well on the Korean Peninsula issues. However, in terms of South Korea's security interest, we are facing a different issue. (Trump meeting Kim Jong Un at the DMZ) will be interesting news for South Korean people, but we should think about if such visit will benefit South Korea for its security interests."

14. Pro-Trump protester marching with sign reading (English) "Stronger & greater, US-ROK (Republic of Korea) alliance"

15. Various of pro-Trump protesters marching with banners and flags

Panmunjom, the border area between South and North Korea, was opened to the media on Friday, a day after the rival nations agreed to hold their third summit in a year later this month.

There was no North Korean presence at the Joint Security Area (JSA), where tourists frequently visit with hopes of seeing North Korean soldiers.

Panmunjom is where an armistice was signed to pause the 1950-53 Korean War, and it was also the venue for the historic summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un earlier this year.

It's located in the 248-kilometre (154-mile) -long Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that forms the de facto Korean border.

The DMZ is guarded on both sides by hundreds of thousands of combat-ready troops, razor-wire fences and tank traps.

More than a million mines are believed to be buried inside it.

Panmunjom – 7 September 2018

1. Various of Joint Security Area (JSA), inside Panmunjom, the border area between South and North Korea

2. Various of patrol officers at Panmunjom

3. Wide of soldiers standing guard around a tree, which was planted by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during the summit on April 27

4. Close of memorial stone, which says (Korean) "We planted peace and prosperity, Moon Jae-in, Kim Jong Un"

5. Wide of the tree and memorial stone

6. Various of the bridge where Moon and Kim walked together on April 27

7. Various of soldiers

South Koreans on Sunday had mixed reactions to a surprise meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the demilitarised zone at the Korean borders.

Min Jung-won, a 26-year-old graduate student, viewed the North Korea-US meeting as an opportunity for the Korean Peninsula to move closer to achieving peace and reunification.

On the other hand, 65-year-old business owner Choi Young-chul expressed a rather sceptical view, saying that both Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in were trying to take advantage of the meeting at DMZ for their own political interests.

Trump and Kim held a quick meeting at the border village Panmunjom earlier the day.

Trump crossed the military demarcation line at Panmunjom and briefly stepped into the North Korean side of the Joint Security Area.

Seoul – 30 June 2019  

1. Various of South Koreans watching footage of US President Donald Trump meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, on a TV screen at Seoul Train Station

2. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Min Jung-won, 26, graduate student:

"I hope that the end-of-(Korean)war announcement takes place as soon as possible. Also, I hope that this time's meeting (between Trump and Kim) could become an opportunity for the two Koreas to achieve economic cooperation and move one more step toward the reunification of Koreas."

3. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Choi Young-chul, 65, private business owner:

"I think (the meeting) is a one-time event for Trump's re-election, and I think President Moon is trying to take advantage of this meeting."

4. Various of people at Seoul Train Station

A North Korean defector criticized the inter-Korean summit on Saturday, saying the two leaders "put on a show" withouth adressing human rights issues while "North Korean people are suffering from the slave regime."

Lee Ae-ran says she defected in 1997 due to the North Korean regime's abuse for her father's past as an anti-Kim Il Sung activist.

She now works in a North Korean restaurant in Seoul.  

Lee says Pyongyang failed to improve basic human rights and minimum living standars for its people.

The leaders of the two Koreas met in Panmunjom, at the DMZ (the Demilitarized Zone that divides the Koreas), on Friday and vowed to remove nuclear weapons from the peninsula and work toward a formal end to the Korean War.

Seoul – 28 April 2018

1. Wide of North Korean restaurant Neungra

2. Various of North Korean defector Lee Ae-ran inside restaurant, working

3. Medium of sign on wall reading (Korean) 'Unification starting from the table'

4. Medium of Lee working

5. Wide of Lee talking

6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Ae-ran, North Korean defector:

"Seeing the Pyongyang naengmyeon (the North Korean cold noodle) set (at the dinner of the inter-Korean summit), South Korean people enthusiastic of it and journalists broadcasting it (the inter-Korean summit), made me feel very angry, sad and miserable. (I thought that they were) very cruel. North Korean people are suffering from the slave regime. I don't know if the people really want to do that."

7. Close of Lee talking

8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Ae-ran, North Korean defector:

"What else has been changed? What has been improved for the North Korean people? Has the human rights issue been solved or has the North Korean people's way of living (living standards) been solved? Watching the summit on the TV yesterday, I thought that (South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) were just putting on a show."

9. Wide of Lee talking

12. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Lee Ae-ran, North Korean defector:

"People should be able to work there (when the two Koreas become unified). The constitution has to be amended and the regime has to change completely. Moreover, the environment should be altered so that the North Korean citizens can have basic living standards (that fulfil basic human rights). People could return back to North Korea only if all the conditions are fulfilled. However, there's no reason to go back."

10. Close up of Lee's caricature

11. Medium of Lee and a worker working

12. Close up of Lee working

STORYLINE:

South Korean President Moon Jae-in's convoy crossed the iconic Unification Bridge between the two Koreas on Friday as he headed towards the Demilitarized Zone for historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un will be in uncharted territory when the third-generation autocrat crosses into the southern half of the DMZ separating the rival Koreas.  

Moon seems intent on keeping the North Korean leader at ease, and an aggressive local media at bay, while engineering a summit meant to move the Koreas from what seemed like the brink of war last year to the engagement that the liberal Moon has always dreamed of.

The leaders, who seemed on the verge of war months ago, will take a pleasant walk, plant a commemorative tree, inspect an honour guard and belly-up to a lavish banquet.

What's less clear is whether they can make any progress in closed door talks on the only thing the world really cares about: North Korea's growing arsenal of nuclear weapons.

Paju - 27 April 2018

1. Various of convoy withy South Korean President Moon Jae-in driving towards the Unification Bridge, heading towards the Demilitarized Zone for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

South Korean President Moon Jae-in departed his office in Seoul on Friday, heading towards the Demilitarized Zone for historic talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un will be in uncharted territory when the third-generation autocrat crosses into the southern half of the DMZ separating the rival Koreas.

Seoul - 27 April 2018

1. Motorcade of South Korean President Moon Jae-in drive past

US and South Korean defence leaders on Saturday stressed that they have military options and enough countermeasures to respond to threats by North Korea.

In a press conference following the annual Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) where South Korea and US discuss pending issues of their alliance, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Washington and Seoul have "many different military options" that would "realistically reduce" threats by Pyongyang.

Mattis asserted that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his regime threaten peace and stability. He also denied the possibility that the US would accept North Korea as a nuclear power.

At the same press conference, South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo said the alliance has "enough countermeasures" against North Korea's provocations.

However, Song denied a possibility of bringing back a US tactical nuclear weapon to South Korea.

The Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) is an annual defence meeting between Seoul and Washington led by the top defence decision making bodies of the two countries.

In this year's meeting, the allies discussed the transfer of wartime operational control, rotation of US strategic assets into the Korean Peninsula, measures to enhance deterrence powers, along with military response and measures against North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.

Seoul – 28 October 2017

1. U.S Secretary of Defence James Mattis and South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo arriving

2. Wide of news conference

3. SOUNDBITE (English) James Mattis, US Secretary of Defence:

"I cannot imagine in light of Kim's (Jong Un) expanded outlaw activities that all the world has experienced, observed, over this last year or two, I can't imagine a condition under which the United States will accept North Korea as a nuclear power."

4. Mattis and Song at news conference

5. SOUNDBITE (English) James Mattis, US Secretary of Defence:

"We must recognize the reality that this a regime, a Kim regime, north of the DMZ that threatens peace and stability and certainly directly against the people of the ROK (Republic of Korea). So our combined effort is to deter that sort of threat or to have military options, many different military options, that would realistically reduce that threat as low as possible. And yes, we do have those options."

6. Pan from Mattis to Song

7. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Song Young-moo, South Korean Defence Minister:

"I have been asked several times by the parliament and press regarding (bringing back) tactical nuclear weapon (to South Korea). I have already answered these questions, and if I have to reaffirm that it is better not to deploy, taking our country's benefit into consideration. Also, if I am asked whether we can respond to North Korea's nuclear provocation, I can say that we have enough countermeasures."

8. Mattis and Song shaking hands

9. Pan from Mattis to Song

10. Mattis and Song leaving