The leaders held their summit talks in April and May, both at the truce village of Panmunjom.

At the April summit Moon and Kim agreed to work toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, halt hostile acts against each other and foster cross-border cooperation on diverse fronts.

The two Koreas have since discussed cooperation in connecting railways and roads across their border and work together in forestry and other areas. They also held military talks and reunions of family separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

On Friday, they opened their first joint liaison office in the North's border town of Kaesong for round-the-clock and face-to-face communications.

The newspaper praised all those developments as great achievements and progress that will open the door for a "bright path" toward reunification of the two Koreas.

The North's firm stance is to keep inter-Korean relations from going off this new track of peace, reconciliation and cooperation, it said.

The newspaper did not directly mention this week's summit but experts said that its emphasis on progress in cross-border relations, peace and reconciliation appears to signal what its direction would be for its South Korea policy going forward. (Yonhap)