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Rehearsals and realism as North and South Korean leaders prepare to meet

That Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in are meeting at all represents a breakthrough – the question now is what can they achieve
The meeting room of the House of Peace in Panmunjom, the venue for the talks. Photograph: Getty Images

The grandson of North Korea’s founder and the son of a refugee who fled the country for the South will shake hands and sit down to begin talks on Friday that could defuse what has become arguably the biggest single threat to global security.

A day before Kim Jong-un and the president, Moon Jae-in, meet just south of the border that has separated the two countries for 65 years, optimism is giving way to realism over what the two

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