To mark the one-year anniversary of South and North Korea's Panmunjeom Declaration,... Seoul held a commemorative event at the border village yesterday.<br />In attendance were foreign diplomats to South Korea, local residents... and artists from South Korea, the U.S., Japan and China.<br />Our Oh Jung-hee has this report. <br /> South Korea held a special event on Saturday at the Southern side of the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjeom,... to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Panmunjeom summit on April 27th.<br /> Titled "The Long Road," the event aimed to remind people,... that even though we still stand far from peace, the road to peace has to be taken.<br /><br /> "This is the road to peace that's been taken by both South and North Korea together. As years go by, we will be able to experience irreversible peace and co-prosperity on the Korean Peninsula."<br /><br /> Special stages were set up at several locations around Panmunjeom where Moon and Kim had met.<br />Artists from South Korea, the U.S., Japan and China put on art and music performances. <br /><br /> <br /> "It was impressive to see the world's most renowned artists here at the Joint Security Area. Inter-Korean relations are now at an impasse, but I hope we could create another atmosphere where South and North Korea can freely interact with each other, as they did last year."<br /><br /> However, Saturday's event was not a joint one with North Korea,... and the North had not been part of the planning efforts.<br />Seoul notified Pyeongyang on Monday that a commemorative event was taking place,... but Pyeongyang did not respond.<br /> Seoul says it would have been better if the two Koreas had held a joint event,... but there were situational reasons why they couldn't.<br />Oh Jung-hee, Arirang News. <br />
