South Korea's president has said he thinks US President Donald Trump should receive a Nobel Peace Prize for his part in ending the standoff around North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
Moon Jai-In, who has previously said that Trump "deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks", said he was confident that peace could be achieved on the Korean peninsula, following historic talks last week during which Seoul and North Korea capital Pyongyang agreed to end a decades-long war between north and south.
"President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace," the South Korean leader told a cabinet meeting on Monday, according to Seoul officials.
Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met on Friday, with the two countries pledging to officially end the Korean War that began in 1950 and work towards 'complete denuclearisation'.
To get the process started, South Korea has promised to remove the loudspeakers that have blasted propaganda across the border for several decades.
The loudspeakers, which broadcasted a mix of pop music, news and criticism of the North Korean regime, were turned off ahead of Friday's summit as a gesture of goodwill. Work to remove them will begin soon.
"We see this as the easiest first step to build military trust," said South Korean defence ministry spokeswoman Choi Hyun-soo.
Meanwhile, Pyongyang will change its clocks by half-an-hour to synchronise with the south.
North Korea's current time zone was established in 2015 to mark 70 years free from Japanese rule after World War Two.
Trump himself tweeted immediately after Friday summit, saying: "KOREAN WAR TO END! The United States, and all of its GREAT people, should be very proud of what is now taking place in Korea!"
However, much of what can be achieved still rests on the outcome of Trump's planned meeting with Kim in late May or early June.
Pyongyang has long said that any deal would require the US to pull its troops out of South Korea and remove its security commitment to Japan and Seoul.
At the same time, North Korea would have to demonstrate irreversible steps towards shutting down its nuclear weapons programme.
Kim told Moon he would be inviting journalists to witness the dismantlement of the Punggye-ri nuclear testing site, where all six of the country's nuclear tests had taken place.
The test site is scheduled to close in May and the invitations to journalists and experts have been given out to show complete transparency around its closure.
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