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North And South Korean Leaders To Meet For 1st Time Since 2007

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A visitor walks by a TV screen showing file footages of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 29, 2018. North Korean leader Kim will meet South Korean President Moon at a border village on April 27, the South announced Thursday after the nations agreed on a rare summit that could prove significant in global efforts to resolve a decades-long standoff over the North's nuclear program. (Lee Jin-man/AP)
A visitor walks by a TV screen showing file footages of South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 29, 2018. North Korean leader Kim will meet South Korean President Moon at a border village on April 27, the South announced Thursday after the nations agreed on a rare summit that could prove significant in global efforts to resolve a decades-long standoff over the North's nuclear program. (Lee Jin-man/AP)

The leaders of North and South Korea will meet in April for the first time in more than a decade.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet on the southern side of the Demilitarized Zone on April 27, ahead of a planned meeting with President Trump before the end of May.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Evans J.R. Revere, senior director with the Albright Stonebridge Group. He was deputy chief of the U.S. team negotiating with North Korea in 1998.

This segment aired on March 29, 2018.

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