Synchronize your watches, everybody—the Koreans are meeting.


Synchronize your watches, everybody—the Koreans are meeting.
Tomorrow (April 27), North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and South Korea president Moon Jae-in will meet to talk peace and a nuclear-free future. The summit will mark the first meeting between leaders of the two Koreas since 2007; the initial summit was held in 2000.
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For those keeping score at home, the schedule for the 2018 Inter-Korean Summit has been announced—featuring plenty of bridezilla-grade detail. Here’s the Kim-Moon agenda, in all its precisely timed and choreographed glory:
9:30am
9:40am
Sometime in the morning (precise timing unclear)
10:30am
Break for lunch
After lunch
After the summit
6:30pm
After the welcome dinner
That schedule might seem tight. But it could have been tighter, apparently. ”As various functions that usually accompany a summit can be omitted if it is held at Panmunjeom,” the Summit’s preparation committee notes in a press release (pdf, p.21),” the two leaders will be able to focus on their discussions.”