Alek Sigley, 29, studies at Kim Il-sung University — the alma mater of Kim Jong-un. He opened a Twitter account just a few months ago and it’s become a rare keyhole through which to view a fast-changing Pyongyang, North Korea.
Seoul officials see the talks as the starting point of President Moon Jae-in’s initiative to denuclearize and build lasting peace on the peninsula, beginning with a freeze in the North’s nuclear program and ending in its complete abolishment.
At one time, Kim Jong-nam was thought to be the natural successor to his father, North Korea’s ‘Dear Leader,’ Kim Jong-il. Now, the younger Kim is dead. And experts suspect that his death might have been a political assassination ordered by his own half-brother, the current supreme leader — Kim Jong-un.