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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: End to the North and South Korean War? [Watch (HLS stream): End to the North and South Korean War?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/X28dglSF.m3u8) (4:53)  _Published 2018-05-02. Time Editor Karl Vick reveals what you need to know about the latest peace talks in the Korean Peninsula._ --- Jul 27, 2023 11:53 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [South Korean and North Korean Continue Cold War-Style Campaigns Across Border](/video/giwqTUtm/) ### South Korean and North Korean Continue Cold War-Style Campaigns Across Border [South Korea's Moon Jae-In Says There Will Not be Another War on the Korean Peninsula](/video/yXfq2WgN/) ### South Korea's Moon Jae-In Says There Will Not be Another War on the Korean Peninsula [See North and South Korean Families Reunite](/video/79w39Q18/) ### See North and South Korean Families Reunite --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] On April 27th in an unprecedented between leaders of two nations still technically at war Kim Jong- un became the first North Korean leader to cross the border into South Korea. Kim smiled, walking over the cease fire line, a line that was drawn after fighting for the Korean War, which ended in 1953 and the arms disagreement created a de- militarized zone to separate the country. Leaders of the two Korea's have only met twice since the peninsula was divided in 1948. Communist North Korea was separated from the anti- Communist south, a product of Cold War tensions heralded by the Soviet Union and the United States at the time. And life today within the two countries could not be further apart. South Korea has the 4th- largest economy in Asia and the 11th largest in the world, with megacities like Seoul and cultural exports like K- Pop The country is a world leader, mean while economic sanctions has taken a considerable tore a North Korea, where citizens live on about $ 1700 per year. Food shortages are the nome and yet the country still spends more than 20 % of it's GDP on military Now the two have promised to sign a peace treaty this year, formally ending the Korean War, with North Korea pledging to denuclearize the peninsula. Kim Jung Un even cracked brazen jokes at the meeting, saying he won't interrupt the South Korean leader's sleep with his early morning missile strikes anymore. This is a sharp departure from the cloud of nuclear weapon, missile test and taunting messages from the United States and North Korea that threatened the world for much of 2017. Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. In fact just this past July North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile claiming to be powerful enough to reach US soil. Kim Jong Un called it a July fourth [ UNKNOWN ] [ SOUND ] I'm here with Times Editor- at- Large, Karl Vick. Karl, thanks so much for joining us. Happy to be here. All right, now I'm going to gauge your insight on North Korea. There have been talks of a peace process in the past, but nothing has stuck. So tell us a little bit about that and what's different this time around for North Korea. There have been peace talks about getting nuclear arms out of North Korea for about as long as North Korea has been trying to get them. President Clinton took a stab at it. W Bush. Obama. And now President Trump is taking his turn. These developments we've seen in recent weeks have been like kind of profoundly symbolic and maybe significant, but it's really not, it's not gonna matter until we have results. There've been agreements before. Four times North Korea agreed to denuclearize, and all it's done is advance it's system in the meantime. Now North Korea considers themselves a nuclear armed state. So what essentially is their end game, and can they really denuclearize? It's a nuclear armed state. That's in the constitution of 2012, they actually put it in. It's really a significant part of their national identity and certainly of their defense posture. Which is based on the Korean war in the early 50s when they, the North invaded the South. United States entered the war and it went on for three years and in that time North Korea was desimated, I mean 80 % of the buildings in North Korea were destroyed by US bombs. That's a huge Communal memory there and it's something that the Kim family, this dynasty that's been running the country for all the time, has played out and, is there a justification for having nuclear weapons as a deterrent to keep the Americans? Now, as they go into these talks with the US, and then maybe some of them with Trump, supposedly the bargain is going to be that they'll agree to really get rid of the nuclear weapons if the US promises not to. Invade or destroy them. The whole idea was that you couldn't trust the Americans. So how will that? And in the meantime you've got President Trump's talking about throwing out the Iran deal. So if he gives the impression that the US welches on nuclear arms deals. What message is that sending in a run up to any summit? Of course, so we'll see how this all pans out if and when a peace treaty does in fact, but Carl, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. [ MUSIC ] ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"End to the North and South Korean War?","description":"Time Editor Karl Vick reveals what you need to know about the latest peace talks in the Korean Peninsula. 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