Moon and Kim on excursion to Mt. Baedusan on the last day of the summit
- 6 years ago
As mentioned earlier... President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed to visit Baekdusan Mountain today... on their last day together.
As our Yoon Jung-min reports, it's a place of great historical significance to both South and North Koreans.
President Moon Jae-in will visit the southern summit of Baekdusan Mountain on the last day of his Pyeongyang trip.
"President Moon Jae-in and Chairman Kim Jong-un will visit Mt. Baekdusan together tomorrow. Chairman Kim suggested the visit, which President Moon accepted."
Baekdusan Mountain is the highest mountain on the Korean peninsula, and it sits on the border between China and North Korea.
The mountain is considered as one of the most sacred places on the Korean peninsula, and it carries immense significance both historical and cultural for both Koreas.
The two leaders will travel some 370 kilometers by airplane from Pyeongyang to Samjiyeon Airport, the closest airport to the mountain.
From the airport, they will mobilize on land by bus and specially tracked vehicles to reach Baekdusan's southern summit, Janggunbong Peak. And if the weather conditions permit, they will head down to Cheonji, the crater lake on top of the mountain.
President Moon will then head back home from Samjiyeon Airport.
The South Korean leader has been expressing hopes he could climb the mountain through North Korean soil, and not through the Chinese side.
He confided such wish to the North Korean leader when they met for their first summit back in April.
Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News.
As our Yoon Jung-min reports, it's a place of great historical significance to both South and North Koreans.
President Moon Jae-in will visit the southern summit of Baekdusan Mountain on the last day of his Pyeongyang trip.
"President Moon Jae-in and Chairman Kim Jong-un will visit Mt. Baekdusan together tomorrow. Chairman Kim suggested the visit, which President Moon accepted."
Baekdusan Mountain is the highest mountain on the Korean peninsula, and it sits on the border between China and North Korea.
The mountain is considered as one of the most sacred places on the Korean peninsula, and it carries immense significance both historical and cultural for both Koreas.
The two leaders will travel some 370 kilometers by airplane from Pyeongyang to Samjiyeon Airport, the closest airport to the mountain.
From the airport, they will mobilize on land by bus and specially tracked vehicles to reach Baekdusan's southern summit, Janggunbong Peak. And if the weather conditions permit, they will head down to Cheonji, the crater lake on top of the mountain.
President Moon will then head back home from Samjiyeon Airport.
The South Korean leader has been expressing hopes he could climb the mountain through North Korean soil, and not through the Chinese side.
He confided such wish to the North Korean leader when they met for their first summit back in April.
Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News.