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Moon Jae-in

19th President (2017–2022). Held three inter-Korean summits in 2018, beginning at Panmunjom

A former human rights lawyer, he served as presidential chief of staff under Roh Moo-hyun. After President Park Geun-hye was removed, he won the May 2017 presidential election as the Democratic Party candidate and took office the next day. Following North Korea's participation in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, he held three inter-Korean summits with Kim Jong Un: the Panmunjom Declaration of 27 April, a second Panmunjom meeting in May, and the Pyongyang summit in September (the September 19 Pyongyang Joint Declaration). He led the response to the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020.

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2018Panmunjom Declaration of 27 Aprilleader
President Moon Jae-in and Chairman Kim Jong Un met at Panmunjom and issued the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula.

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Kim Jong Un
Son of Kim Jong Il and leader of North Korea since 2011; his birth year is unconfirmed

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Changing Unification Policies1948 – 2018
From “march north” to the Panmunjom Declaration — inter-Korean relations from confrontation to dialogue, through joint statements and agreements to summits (up to 2018)