South Korea's Moon presses Pope Francis again to visit North


Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi poses with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in as he arrives for the G20 leaders summit in Rome, Italy on Saturday, Oct 30, 2021. - Reuters

VATICAN CITY, Oct 30 (AFP): South Korean President Moon Jae-in has made a fresh attempt to have Pope Francis visit North Korea, at a meeting at the Vatican where the two leaders discussed peace efforts, Yonhap said.

Moon gave Francis one of 136 crosses created with barbed wire from a fence in the demilitarised zone (DMZ), the division across the peninsula for the past 68 years.

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