Seoul — The two Koreas on Thursday set a date for a rare interKorean summit, following a high-level meeting that was held days after the nuclear-armed North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, made his international debut with a surprise trip to China. "According to the will of both leaders, the South and North agreed to hold the ‘2018 South-North summit’ on April 27 at the South’s Peace House in Panmunjom," said a joint media statement, read out in turn by both delegations’ leaders. The meeting between Kim and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in will be only the third of its kind, and will be followed by landmark talks with US President Donald Trump, which could come as early as May. The venue will make Kim the first North Korean leader to set foot in the South since the end of the Korean War — although according to Pyongyang’s official accounts, during the conflict his grandfather and predecessor Kim Il-sung went several times to Seoul, which twice fell to his forces. The two sides did not set...
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