The leaders of North and South Korea have met in the disarmed outskirt zone between the two nations.
The gathering is just the second between South Korea's Moon Jae-in and the North's Kim Jong-un.
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It comes as the two sides proceed with endeavors to put a notable US-North Korea summit back on track.
US President Donald Trump wiped out the summit, booked to be held in Singapore on 12 June, yet later recommended it may even now proceed.
The most recent talks were hung on the northern side of the Panmunjom détente town, in the vicinity of 15:00 and 17:00 nearby time (06:00 and 08:00 GMT), Mr Moon's office said.
"The two leaders traded sentiments... for the fruitful holding of the North Korea-US summit," it included, saying that Mr Moon would report the result of the discussions on Sunday morning.
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In Washington, Trump organization representative Sarah Sanders affirmed that a propel group of White House and Division of State authorities would leave for Singapore this end of the week, as initially planned, to get ready for a conceivable summit there.
The discussions between Mr Trump and Mr Kim, if they somehow happened to proceed, would be centered around methods for denuclearising the Korean landmass and diminishing strains.
In the wake of crossing out the planned summit last Thursday, pointing the finger at North Korea's "enormous outrage and open threatening vibe", Mr Trump tweeted on Friday that "extremely beneficial talks" had occurred with the North on reestablishing the summit with Mr Kim.
"We're going to perceive what happens. We're conversing with them [North Korea] now. It was an extremely decent proclamation they put out," Mr Trump told columnists at the White House in Washington.
He was alluding to remarks from the North's Bad habit Outside Pastor, Kim Kye-gwan, who said that Mr Trump's choice was "unforeseen" and "to a great degree deplorable", including that Pyongyang was willing "to sit up close and personal whenever".
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While Mr Trump said in a letter routed to Mr Kim that he had scratched off the "since quite a while ago arranged" meeting "for the benefit of the two gatherings", he additionally said that "great discourse" had as of late occurred and that he was all the while anticipating meeting the North Korean pioneer.