When North Korean leaders meet their South Korean counterparts, they tend to offer rather unusual gifts, begging the question: What will Kim Jong Un bring…
When North Korean leaders meet their South Korean counterparts, they tend to offer rather unusual gifts, begging the question: What will Kim Jong Un bring when he meets the South Korean president Friday.
Transitioning from a brutal despot with nukes in hand to an international statesman, Kim will cross into South Korea for the first time Friday for a landmark meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Friday’s meeting is the third inter-Korean summit, but the first in a decade. Kim will soon become the first North Korean leader to visit South Korea since the end of hostilities over six decades ago.
When former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung met the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang in 2000, the two sides exchanged dogs. The South Korean leader presented a pair of Jindo dogs named Peace and Reunification, and the North Korean leader brought two Pusan dogs named Unity and Independence. The dogs given to South Korea were given a home at the presidential office and later the national zoo. Yet, no one is really sure what happened to the two dogs presented to the North.
