See hhowSouth Koreans Cheer In City Square To Celebrate The Peace Agreement(Photos)

See hhowSouth Koreans Cheer In City Square To Celebrate The Peace Agreement(Photos)

Usually when South Koreans see Kim Jong-Un's face plastered on news billboards it fills them with the dread a potentially devastating war.

But on Friday the unthinkable happened the two Koreas pledged to end more than 60 years of hostility and de-nuclearise the peninsula.

Suddenly ordinary Koreans who grew up knowing nothing but tension from the north were cautiously optimistic about a peaceful future.

Kim Jong-un shakes hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the border between the two Koreas in the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

A South Korean guard straddles the demarcation line: the right half of the tableis in North Korea.

President Donald Trump says he won't be played like his predecessors when it comes to North Korea.

'This isn't like past administrations.

We don't play games,' Trump said.

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