Seoul: North and South Korea will hold their first summit in over a decade on April 27, South Korean officials announced on Thursday.
The decision comes after North Korean lead-er Kim Jong Un pledged his commitment to denuclearisation as tensions ease between the old foes.
South Korean officials announced the date of the summit after holding high-level talks with their North Korean counterparts on Thursday.
The two Koreas had agreed earlier in March to hold such a summit at the border truce village of Panmunjom. The talks were the first between the two Koreas since the delegation returned from the North.
A South Korean unification ministry official told reporters the two Koreas would hold a working-level meeting on April 4 to discuss details for the summit, such as staffing support, security and news releases.
They are technically still at war after the 1950-53 conflict ended with a ceasefire, not a truce.
Kim is also scheduled to meet Donald Trump some time in May to discuss denuclearisation, even though a time and place have not been set for that summit.
Kim met Chinese President Xi Jinping in a visit to Beijing this week, his first trip outside the isolated North since he came to power in 2011.
