Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/leaders-from-north-south-korea-take-steps-toward-peace-treaty Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Leaders from North and South Korea met to discuss a peace treaty that will formally end the Korean War. Independent Television News reports on the meeting between the long-divided Asian countries. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JUDY WOODRUFF: Some moves toward reconciliation between North and South Korea. Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News has this report on the Korean summit that ended today. LINDSEY HILSUM, ITV News Correspondent: Signed and sealed, but will it be delivered? North Korea's dear leader and his South Korean counterpart today agreed to a peace and economic cooperation pact. BAEK JONG-CHUN, South Korean Presidential Secretary (through translator): South Korea and North Korea agreed that there is a need to build a permanent peaceful system and move on beyond the current cease-fire agreement. Both nations agreed to cooperate and hold a three-party or four-party talk summit on the peninsula in order to officially declare the end of war.