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Korean Leaders to Make Joint Entrance, Sit at Round Table for Summit

News2018-04-25

Anchor: Two days before a historic summit between the South and North, the two Koreas held a joint rehearsal at the border village of Panmunjeom. The presidential office also disclosed details about the interior of the Peace House, the venue for the meeting on the southern side of Panmunjeom, on Wednesday. 
Our Bae Joo-yon has the preview. 

Report: President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will jointly enter the summit venue inside the Peace House through the main entrance and sit at an oval table that was custom made for the meeting. 

In previous summits, the leaders of the two Koreas had made separate entrances and sat at a rectangular table for talks. 

The top office explained that a round table was built to enable the two leaders to hold sincere talks and to narrow the 70-year psychological division and physical border between the two sides. 

The office said the table was designed with a width of two-thousand-18 millimeters to symbolize the year 2018 and the chairs where the Korean leaders will be sitting were made based on traditional Korean furniture designs. A map of the Korean Peninsula has been engraved at the top of the chair’s backs. 

In previous summits, a painting of Mount Halla was hung. Instead, the upcoming summit will feature a piece of art of Mount Geumgang, which is often used as the symbol of inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation. 

The interior of the summit venue was created to give an air of a traditional hanok house. In particular, traditional Korean wooden lattice windows were installed to express hope that upon the summit, the two Koreas will build long-standing trust like the solid latticework. 

The top office said that a blue carpet has been laid in hopes the summit will mark the beginning of a new start for peace on the Korean Peninsula. 

With two days to go until the talks on Friday, officials from the two sides engaged in comprehensive on-site inspections under the same format as the actual summit, and traced detailed routes and events involving the two leaders. 
Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio News. 

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