say because we're embargoed until the moment in which they actually sign which as you can see president moon seems to be doing now and kim jong un is signing his his version of the agreement now watching this is a. diplomatic attitude james based james so this seems to be the moment that with him waiting for any idea what's in this declaration. you're seeing the two leaders signing it's a three part declaration that is coming out and they're finding each part of it being handed it and signed it you're seeing the south korea's president moon who's signing it on one side one of his aides giving it to him you'll see actually the person the female hands they're giving the supreme leader kim his document to sign is actually his sister who's assisting him with signing the documents they are exchanging each other's copies they are shaking hands the two leaders having signed

this agreement yet another historic image from this summit which i think is going according to the south koreans extremely well they will head out from inside the peace house where they are now posing and shaking hands once again down the red carpet in a moment and speak to us and tell us a little bit more let me though tell you a little bit more now it's been signed because we got just a few moments before the signing what it is what it says it says both koreas will work on reconnecting both countries and work towards unification the career's will establish a communications post in cali song area that's where in the past there's a factory that's been operated by the south koreans in north korea where both countries officials are already stationed they've said that there will be a family reunion held on august the fifteenth to reunite divided families they say that they will. to formally agree joint projects and that includes an aim

to reconnect to roads and railways both careers will work to eliminate the possibility of law of war sorry they will stop a loudspeaker broadcast on the border and leaflets from the first of may there are also looking at the sea areas the north limit line in the west sea turning that into a safe piece zone they will hold a military meeting in may between the generals they will work to establish we talked about this before marty a permanent peace on the peninsula change that armistice to a peace deal career's will declare the end of the war this year so that's a commitment for a peace treaty this year and then they'll pursue a sort of south korea and north korea u.s. talks and the south korean north korea us china talks they're coming up to the podium and i'm sure you're going to hear more about the details i've got more

details here that i can give you but let's listen to the two leaders after signing this is storage agreement marty. them. tough day. coming to the dog the. book about a. dog on a dog but the dog. i'm got to agree. had on political. can dominion jungle no no come

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a permanent peace and that would ing tail having first of all trilateral talks and then talks with china and the united states as well. yes bring in i think they're going to bring in the two of them first then they're going to bring in the u.s. and then they're going to bring it to a four way discussion with china to that is important i think the most important thing is that they're saying that this year they want to end the korean war formally with a proper peace treaty between these two leaders whose countries technically even now are at war that's a very important development on the korean peninsula we're also hearing that president mubarak who clearly has been hosting this summit this time around and supreme leader kim has come one hundred fifty meters albeit but has come to the south korean side well there's going to be

a reciprocal visit taking place in the fall we're told in the autumn president moon is going to visit pyongyang now what is missing from this agreement there is a pledge a lofty pledge for denuclearization i am not seeing in the words that are being given to reporters yet any concrete detail is this going to be enough to satisfy the u.s. that the north koreans are serious will need to watch very closely the word from washington because washington wants to know that it's worth engaging in its own talks with north korea that the north koreans would seriously consider giving up all of their nuclear program and the long range missiles that are the delivery mechanism potentially to deliver those weapons from north korea towards the u.s. mainland as are those the key points we're getting quite detailed texts and they're

in korean and we don't have an official translation right uses working very very hard reading through them translating as we speak and james another another element that jumps out at me is the reunions of the. separated families to have a day on august the fifteenth i mean that will satisfy many of the name says in south korea i'm sure. that will certainly be very welcomed by those families and it's certainly a very important goodwill gesture some of the things they're talking about in this i think are things that they've mentioned before the lofty goal of reconnecting the road and railway systems between north and south korea that's a pretty big job but they're in very different states at the moment i was on not the mainline train but on the underground train in pyongyang recently when i was visiting there and it was it's not a particular impressive system compared with the bullet trains they have in south

korea now let's listen in we can speak to we can hear now from the president of south korea. to so. hard for sinners like labor first and then to do their job and be at the medici yes we will. go in sort of policy to build a new relations with in a new process books based on. more contacts and more cooperation we decided to work to gather to get to the nuclear things in the region and start a new page thank you very much for the efforts and we've believe that through peace and security we can open a new page in the relations between the two countries. we can't

consider that no conflict will continue in the korean peninsula and this is an unprecedented moment and thank you very much for this distinguished guests my one of martinez dick the citizens dear friends overseas. we are gathering in this part to start an open then you page in the history of the two countries i would like to stress that the very beginning that this successful meeting successful summit like at the beginning to thank

everyone who worked for this historical moment and i express my appreciation to those who have received us here we feel and i feed of that we are part of one family and both come true is with a goal through a new paula say to call parades. and following years and years of this spirit so we are here today to say that nothing will make us different again and when i say this in a clear way the north korean and the south korean are now sharing one spot on the map and they represent one country in a way or another and we hope to add cheve the ambitions in the hopes of

both countries in the koreans. we have overcome all the problems and i am here today are you came here today. with the whole to have a korean peninsula that will live in a different atmosphere a different atmosphere that is based on peace and security it's a and we have now the data that we're headed vos to bring stability and peace in this part of the world and to start a new political. between us and both koreans this is very important and by satisfied my counterparts i have discussed a lot of issues that of which work on sun and at the same

time i am ok we have come on things between us and i know that the time. is now following us from parts we would work and we would work hard in all the two of voids the mistakes of the pasta we will work together and we have agreed upon certain things and we are trying to achieve everything that would be for the sake of both the papers i hold together with my counterparts. that everything will be fine that the new page will be opened in. shake and we would work together for the sustainable development in our both countries. and we. we need to achieve that

and we need to make sure that we would be together working side by side to continue the positron and to abide by the commitments that would be for the sake of the benefit of both countries. history is not made of nothing history is made because of work and because of efforts exerted and today we get together and work for a new atmosphere and new domain and the world has to know that we have now our own goals own which will goals and when we when work more we will have grave and i think most taps to be taken

and more efforts to be exerted and we need to overcome all the challenges and it will need to dream of a better future we will cooperate together for the sake of both countries and this is a very important to work on and to develop and this is an important part of agreements thank you. well that's a moment for the history books isn't it the two leaders of the koreas shaking hands and rubber stamping that joint declaration in which it does appear that the north korean leader has again expressed willingness to scrap his country's nuclear program the words being. a common goal of realizing korean the

korean peninsula will become new clear free through complete denuclearize asian jane spays our diplomatic editor going through this declaration we're getting it in in trips and drabs radially but that's a piece of it that i'm sure will stand out to many especially those in washington. i think those are the lines from the declaration that will be scrutinized the most let's remember that some of this if it happens is truly historic the end the formal end to the korean war there's been an armistice in place since one nine hundred fifty three they started working negotiating on that after less than a year of the korean war and they worked on it for another two years to bring it to a temporary truce now these nations which are still technically at war with each other could come to a lasting peace and that could happen this year that is very important indeed as

are some of the other measures that have been announced as is the reciprocal visit of president moon to pyongyang to take place this fall that is also very very important in keeping the diplomatic momentum going but i think the scrutiny all be on that language on denuclearization because there is a pledge to do killer eyes the korean peninsula but north korea has talked about a general denuclearization at some point in the past they've said that before they've accepted that in the past but never has there been a timeline there's not a timeline for that now there's no concrete detail for that now so it'll be interesting to see the response to that part of this length the declaration from washington because i think they'll be different views there are two key hawks involved in the u.s. administration but i think they might have different views on this one is the brand new secretary of state mark pompei oh he is head of the cia has been leading the

secret until recently negotiations between the u.s. and north korea even making a secret visit to pyongyang that we now have had photos released of he currently is invested in this process he's leading this process for donald trump we expect him to continue to have a key role although i think it's likely his former colleagues at the cia were. the main into the reader is rather than his new team the diplomats at the state department the other key figure is also new in his job in the last couple of weeks and that's the national security adviser john bolton who we know from all his previous statements but in recent weeks and in recent years of course he was a key official of the bush administration and was their ambassador at the united nations he does not trust north korea he's made that very clear so those two hawkish figures may have different views on whether that iran which on

denuclearization is sufficient and i'm sure there were discussions in washington because they wanted to see a real willingness that north korea was prepared to consider giving up its nuclear arsenal and give up its long wage weapons before committing there's a very tight timeline to a nother even more important in this summit between president trump and supreme leader kim a tight timeline because the talking on the summit of having it taking place in the next month or six weeks in may or early june a date has not been set a venue has not been set yet but an even more high stakes meeting is planned but not yet confirmed absolutely james say as you've already pointed out with those two key components of the. cabinet now a far more hawkish does this piece of paper this a joint declaration does this give them enough to go on to aid in the first

instance confirm that summit to take place between president trump and the north korean leader will it give them enough. i'm not going to pass judgment on that because i think there will likely to be different opinions in the u.s. administration on eat that is what we're. going to have to watch for in the coming days and coming hours it is worth bearing in mind though if you look at president trump's foreign policy if you look in fact at any of his policies domestic or foreign there aren't any big wins in there at the moment so this is something that at least in public terms looks like it's going well with and we're now seeing the two wives of the leaders on the live broadcast arriving because what happens now is after they've done the deal they can relax a little because there's

a formal banquet about to take place between the north korean and south korean leadership and james i mean you were just a couple of days ago in north korea went to and from your reporting it became amply evident the north koreans have been raised on a a staple of anti american rhetoric and they consider themselves to be on a war footing constantly how is kim jong un going to sell this to the people of north korea. well he's prepared the people of north korea for this summit and i've been watching north korean t.v. today when it came on air the softer noon that i broadcast around the clock they come on air in the afternoon and broadcast in the evening very limited news broadcast on it but said that their leader was trying to defuse tensions and that's why he was having this meeting they've still not at this stage broadcast pictures of what's been happening here we expect that to captain in the coming hours but we

don't expect them to relay everything that's been said particularly some of the comments that kim has made about his own country's infrastructure and transport system complaining to his south korean counterpart about the state of the roads and the railways the north korean people are already always told that they're living in a communist utopia where everything is better than everywhere else in the world the other thing of course the north koreans have not been told is the prospect that they could be this summit with trump the u.s. ever since the korean war has been painted as the enemy the mortal enemy of north korea and if that's some it's going to take place in just a month or six weeks they really have to change the narrative and change it very fast and what are the other takeaways you think from this declaration i'm i'm scrolling through it quite slowly gains where the other points that stand out.

well some of the things that are in this declaration are things that have been mentioned before remember that we have had summits before between the north korean and south korean leaders that never have we seen a north korean leader set foot though in the south at any time since the korean war it's something that kim's grandfather didn't do after the korean war or his father but some of these aims lofty aims like reunifying the road system of the railway system have been there what we do have in this i think is significant certainly on the peace treaty is we have an actual timeline we hear that the aim is to do that by the end of the year and again for the next bit of the into korean diplomacy we have a timeline to that president moon is supposed to travel to pyongyang in the fall so a clear timeline for this i think to show the americans the rest of the international community and the population here in south korea and maybe to

a limited extent kim wants to show the population of north korea that this thing has got momentum james if you stay with us for a moment let's pop over to beijing and get the thoughts of asian brown our correspondent there because certainly this declaration seems to have at least a couple of points that will please the chinese agent. yeah that's right china appears to be back in the game with these four party talks are indeed held later in the year involving china the united states and the two koreas china of course finds itself in an unusual position of a it's on the sidelines of a major international event happening right on its doorstep and of course it doesn't want to be outmaneuvered by washington on this one it wants to be near the center of any peace process now i think the response today from beijing has been both positive but also cautious the foreign ministry spokeswoman talked to foreign

journalists a few hours ago she said that china applauded this historic moment and also appreciated the bravery of the two leaders and hoped they could now embark on a new journey towards peace but the question is is a peace treaty going to lead to reunification because china worries about what a reunified korea might mean for them would it be good would it be so for china there is certainly a good deal of uncertainty and it worries i think down the line potentially potentially north korea might start to move out of its own orbit and to strike out on its own and there is language in the declaration that is not an official translation to be fair but they're suggesting that this is the careers are one nation these are words attributed specifically to two supreme leader kim talking about the eventual unification.

yeah that's right i mean there's been some interesting comments on social media today martin there was one common the really caught the attention of my colleagues in the beijing bureau saying damn the two koreas are making nice china screwed and i think that taps into really the official vein here about the our needs china has about a unified korea could it mean for instance that china's influence over the korean peninsula would start to wane if that would happen i mean we shouldn't get too far ahead of ourselves of course because you know ahead lie you know months and years of negotiation and verification and what have you but certainly initially china is sounding positive it's also sounding cautious and of course it's going to be very interesting to know martine what the views are of those ethnic koreans living on the chinese side of the border just across from north korea there are two million ethnic koreans living in china i'd be fascinated to know what they make of today's

developments whether they support the idea the prospect perhaps of a unified korea down the line and adrian does this about tear in in kim's attitude is this an acknowledgement of the dire situation of the north korean economy and in fact a statement of intent to reboot it because that will please the chinese won't it. yeah. certainly the chinese have not enjoyed in forcing sanctions against north korea notionally an ally of the still they have been at the forefront of imposing u.n. sanctions against north korea and that has had some impact actually on local economies in the border regions and already in some sections of the state controlled media you're seeing calls for sanctions to now be lifted so i wonder whether in the next few weeks or months you might start to see a slight relaxation of sanctions in port cities like dan dong which straddles the

border between north korea and china certainly china believes that you know sanctions were never going to work ultimately it always felt that negotiation had to play a role but i think it's fair to assume the sanctions have had an impact on north korea maybe not in the in pyongyang but perhaps you know in the countryside areas where there are poor people and maybe this is some kind of vindication of the chinese line because they have had to tread a very fine line haven't they between. imposing the sanctions as demanded by washington for the most part as well as making sure that the regime didn't crumble completely because that would have been seen as disastrous for the chinese. yeah and that also reflects their concerns about a unified korea because would a unified korea perhaps involve some of the twenty eight thousand u.s. troops currently in south korea remaining in

a unified country they certainly don't want that to happen but yes they wanted to avoid at all costs the the kim jong regime collapsing that could have seen you know a lot of refugees pouring across its border into china creating the one thing that the leadership here fears most which of course is social instability but now in a sense china finds itself in a very odd position i mean this time you know a few months ago the leadership here really feared the prospect of war on the korean peninsula now it has the prospect of peace and that perhaps leading to a unified korea and the uncertainty that could bring for china all right agent thank you very much indeed for giving us. commentary from china very important country of the sea in this let's go back there now to james james spays our diplomatic editor his there overlooking the demilitarized zone so overall by and large this is being quite a successful day isn't it as the leaders go in for dinner. they certainly

were saying there in their declaration and in their public statements about the declaration that this was a successful day it certainly was a historic day just the simple fact of kim crossing the demarcation line into south korea was on its own historic and some of the things that have been agreed here if they happen i will stress that will be historic a formal end to the korean war peace between these two countries that are still technically at war a return visit by president moon this a president of a country is not even an office for a year his approval ratings before this summit were. about seventy percent or so i suspect they'll be even higher after this we expect him after this meeting has taken place to get on the phone and brief his key ally president donald trump to tell him how it went to work one time bind the scenes perhaps particularly what

went on all not blue bridge when with no aides at all not even no takers the two men sat for more than thirty minutes face to face and discussed the issues i think from those conversations he'll be able to advise president trump whether he thinks that the north koreans are serious on the issue of denuclearization because in the declaration that the one bit that doesn't have concrete detail and doesn't have timelines and that's the bit which will be scrutinized very very closely so very much the start of the process isn't that because from the declaration it's more a statement of intent rather than a detailed program of engagements that will lead to a specific objective. absolutely this summit and if we get the other one with trump a really happening not the way normal diplomacy happens normally it's patient

negotiation but the officials going through the detail i covered much of the iran talks the devil was in the detail well they're not doing any of the detail at this stage we're seeing the heads of state the principals as they're often called by diplomats coming in at the beginning before there's a process in the process is going to have to deal with all those inconvenient difficult details that are likely to emerge particularly on the nuclear program on the whole issue of verification who's going to make sure that all of this is happening indeed and as you say there is a there is a timeframe that has to be borne in mind isn't there because in the past when north korea has seen has been seen to be playing nice if you like politics has got in the way. yes well we're in the lucky position where the political leaders involved here north korea clearly doesn't have to worry about elections south korea we have a relatively new leader who doesn't have any political deadlines coming up and

president trump well he's in office for another two and a half years and that makes plain what diplomats have told me which is once there is a trump someone who does take place president trump wants all the details all the negotiations concluded in a two year timeline he does not want this to drag on and that may well be partly for domestic political considerations there's not a lot going well in washington for the trump administration if he could secure a diplomatic victory like this it could be particularly helpful going into a campaign to get yourself reelected as the president of the united states right james bays our diplomatic editor live in thank you very much indeed for taking us through this momentous occasion today there you see again the two leaders of north and south korea shaking hands after having signed their joint declaration which is

contains some very interesting statements of intent without any detailed plans of action however that something that could begin starting from now some people have described this is the first move in a game of chess so you've been watching this here at al-jazeera more news after one east. to. the gut.