Moment in DPRK may hold promise of progress

It may have been a relatively hastily-arranged meeting. But it was probably more productive than the two leaders' well-prepared rendezvous in Hanoi, Vietnam, four months ago.

In briefly crossing the military demarcation line in the truce town of Panmunjom on Sunday, Donald Trump boldly went where no sitting US president has gone before, stepping into both the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and history.

What was seemingly planned as a two-minute meet-and-greet with DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un, became something more substantial as the affinity between the two, turned into a meet-the-family moment. Apparently impromptu, after taking 10 steps into the DPRK with Kim at his side, Trump escorted the DPRK leader into the Republic of Korea for 50 minutes of private talks in what is known as the Freedom House where they were joined by his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, both senior White House advisors.