Construction of Inter-Korean Peace House (19 December 1989)

The Peace House (House of Peace or Home of Peace) is a venue for peace talks between North and South Korea. The building is situated in the Joint Security Area on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line bisecting the area. It is under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Command.

The Peace House is a three-story building whose construction completed on December 19, 1989. The floor layout, which adds up to 998 square metres (10,740 sq ft), is as follows:

The building is intended for non-military purposes, with the most notable usage being the April 2018 inter-Korean summit.

The building is equipped with closed-circuit television and microphones, allowing real time audio and video monitoring of the facility at the South Korean presidential office in Seoul.

Notable usages

The building has served as a venue for the following events:

August 25, 2015: Kim Kwan-jin, South Korea's Chief of National Security Council, and Hong Yong-pyo, South Korea's Minister of Unification, met with Hwang Pyong-so, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of North Korea's Workers' Party, and Kim Yang Gon, a senior official of the Workers' Party of Korea.
January 15, 2018, Kwon Hyok Bong, director of the Arts and Performance Bureau in North Korea's Culture Ministry, and Hyon Song-wol, North Korea's deputy chief delegate for the talks, met with their South Korean counterparts to discuss inter-Korean participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
April 27, 2018: April 2018 inter-Korean summit

Text from the Wikipedia article “Peace House”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Construction of Inter-Korean Peace House

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