Trump proposes DMZ for his summit with Kim

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published 30 April 2018

President Trump indicated Saturday the "time and location of [his] meeting with North Korea is [sic] being set," and Monday morning he tweeted a location idea: the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the 2.5 mile-wide neutral territory between North and South Korea.

The Peace House and the Freedom House are located on the South Korean side of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), the border between the two Koreas at the center of the DMZ. Nearby, on the North's side of the MDL, is the Unification Pavilion, which is also used for diplomatic ventures.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.