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(2 Oct 2007) 1. Various of South Korean motorcade approaching inter-Korean Military Demarcation Line 2. North Korean officials 3. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and First Lady Kwon Yang-sook shaking hands with North Korean officials 4. Wide of South Korean delegation 5. Tight shot of Roh walking towards towards the Military Demarcation Line 6. Wide of Roh and Kwon standing on the the Military Demarcation Line 7. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean President "As a president, I'm crossing this forbidden line this time. After I'm back (in South Korea), I do hope that more people will follow suit, and then this forbidden line will eventually and gradually be erased." 8. Roh and Kwon bowing as officials applaud 9. Mid of Roh and Kwon 10. Roh and Kwon crossing the the Military Demarcation Line STORYLINE South Korea's president walked across North Korea's border on Tuesday on his way to Pyongyang for a summit with Kim Jong Il, pledging to foster peace on the divided peninsula in the second-ever such meeting between its leaders. Roh Moo-hyun and his wife Kwon Yang-sook stepped across a yellow plastic strip with the words "peace" and "prosperity" written on it and laid across the Military Demarcation Line that divides the Koreas in the middle of the heavily fortified Demilitarised Zone. Crossing near the North Korean city of Kaesong, the South Korean delegation was greeted by North Korean officials and women in traditional Korean hanbok dresses bearing bouquets. "As a president, I'm crossing this forbidden line this time. After I'm back (in South Korea), I do hope that more people will follow suit, and then this forbidden line will eventually and gradually be erased," said Roh. South Korean officials have declined to give specifics on what Seoul seeks at the summit, given the unpredictable nature of talks with North Korea's Kim. They have sought to play down expectations, asserting that simply having any meeting is valuable. The North and South have remained technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a cease-fire. The presidential motorcade will continue by road for the entire 200-kilometre (125-mile) journey from Seoul to Pyongyang. This week's summit comes almost exactly a year after the North tested a nuclear bomb, rattling regional stability and leading to a dramatic turnaround in the previous hard-line U.S. policy toward its long time rival. Since then, Pyongyang has shut down its sole operating nuclear reactor that produced material for bombs and has tentatively agreed to disable its atomic facilities by year-end in a way that they cannot be easily restarted. Roh acknowledged on Tuesday that ridding the North of nuclear weapons and establishing a peace treaty could not be realised by the two Koreas alone. Pyongyang has participated in international talks including the US and other regional powers on its nuclear program that were set to reconvene Tuesday. A peace agreement to end the Korean War would require participation of the US and China, which also fought in that conflict. South Korean officials have declined to give specifics on what Seoul seeks at the summit, given the unpredictable nature of talks with North Korea's Kim. They have sought to play down expectations, asserting that simply having any meeting is valuable. Accompanied by industry leaders, politicians and cultural figures, Roh will spend hours in dialogue with Kim and tour the North, even taking in a massive propaganda spectacle with thousands of synchronised performers glorifying North Korea's communist regime. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...