President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have planted a tree together in the inter-Korean border in the hope the symbol of confrontation and division will turn into a place for peace and prosperity. 

Following their summit meeting at the truce village of Panmunjeom on Friday, the two leaders attended a joint tree-planting event held at a road near the Military Demarcation Line(MDL), which late Hyundai Group chairman Chung Ju-yung passed to visit the North in 1994 with a herd of hundreds of cows. 

They planted a pine tree, which is known to be the most favorite tree for Koreans, both in the South and the North. The tree is 65-years-old, representing the duration the two Koreas have been separated since the armistice that suspended the Korean War. 

The Korea Forest Service said the two-meter-high pine tree came from a garden at the government complex in Daejeon. 

Some of the soil used for the planting event was transported from Mount Halla on the South Korean island of Jeju and Mount Baekdu from the North. Moon also spread water from Daedong River in the North onto the soil while Kim poured water from the Han River in the South. 

Together, they also unveiled a stone monument in front of the tree baring the phrase, “planting for peace and prosperity.”

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