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Korean leaders pledge denuclearization, but avoid specifics

by Associated Press

Apr 27, 2018

In a historic moment, North and South Korea have pledged there will be "no more war."

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) exchange documents during a signing ceremony near the end of their historic summit at the truce village of Panmunjom on Friday. The leaders of the two Koreas held a landmark summit after a highly symbolic handshake over the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries, with the North's Kim Jong Un declaring they were at the "threshold of a new history.

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