South Korea has ceaselessly made efforts to relieve tensions on the Korean Peninsula and open up a new path toward peace.

As a result, the inter-Korean summit that took place in 2018 for the first time in 11 years since 2007 laid the foundation for the groundbreaking improvement in inter-Korean relations and the advancement of permanent peace on the Korean Peninsula.

On April 27, 2018, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission Kim Jong Un crossed the border into South Korea for an inter-Korean summit held at the Peace House on the southern side of the border village of Panmunjeom, becoming the first North Korean leader to set foot on South Korean soil. During the historic summit, President Moon Jae-in and Chairman Kim Jong Un agreed to facilitate groundbreaking advancements in inter-Korean relations, and to establish a permanent and solid peace regime on the Korean Peninsula by signing the Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula.