The summit, through a South Korean's eyes
by Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times
Jun 13, 2018
4 minutes
SINGAPORE - We stood arm's length from each other in the tense St. Regis hotel lobby, two reporters who speak the same language waiting for the same thing.
The gulf between us was as vast as the demilitarized zone - laced with landmines and overgrown from 70 years of abandon - that separates North and South Korea.
He was a North Korean cameraman, traveling with a young tyrant to capture his stunning debut on the world stage, and I a South Korea-raised journalist working for an American newspaper.
I was one of the international media that swarmed to Singapore to cover Tuesday's summit between
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