North Korea on Friday called the latest inter-Korean summit a "turning point" toward the reunification of the Korean Peninsula, one day after the South's President Moon Jae In returned to Seoul following his three-day visit to Pyongyang.

The Pyongyang summit "marked an epochal turning point" in accelerating reconciliation and cooperation "to open the heyday of the great cause of reunification," North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.

(Pyeongyang Press Corps)

The Rodong Sinmun of the ruling Workers' Party, North Korea's most influential newspaper, said Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left "footprints" in the new era of development and prosperity of inter-Korean relations.


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The newspaper also carried a photo of the two leaders raising their gripped hands atop Mt. Paektu, the highest mountain on the Korean Peninsula and a spiritual symbol for the Korean people, during their visit on Thursday.

(Pyeongyang Press Corps)

After being liberated from Japan's colonial rule with its World War II surrender in 1945, the Korean Peninsula was divided into the Soviet-backed North and the U.S.-supported South in 1948.