North Korean state-run Central Television started broadcasting at 15:00 local time (06:30 GMT) sticking to its regular schedule despite the ongoing Inter Korea Summit, Alistair Coleman at BBC Monitoring reports.

The station went through its usual opening sequence - martial music, views of Mount Paektu, and photographs of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il before a preview of the day's broadcasting.

At 06:42 GMT a male news presenter read the KCNA statement of Kim Jong-un leaving for the summit. There was neither video nor photographs.

State television does not appear to be airing any special programming today regarding the summit.

The inter-Korean summit has basically taken everyone by surprise and proven many an expert prediction very wrong.

Here's one of the pundits contemplating the "known and unknown unknowns" this is teaching us.

North Korean state TV is firing up - it goes on air quite late in the day. North Koreans tuning in now are hearing martial music and views of Mount Paektu - seen as a sacred mountain by many Koreans.

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes describes watching the moment Kim crossed in to the South.

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It's not always been warm words and handshakes. North Korean state media has often had a barrage of insults ready in stock for whoever is at the helm in the South.

Last summer, the Rodong Sinmun paper blasted Moon Jae-in as "poor and very disappointing", relations between the two sides as a "failure" and any Southern efforts at reconciliation as "hypocrisy". Back then, Southern efforts toward denuclearisation were "an unpardonable plot toeing the US line to suffocate the DPRK".

Many pundits doubt whether there's really been a change of heart in Pyongyang.

Our BBC Korean colleagues have shared this image on Instagram. It's a map of the Korean peninsula as one (including some islands also claimed by Japan) made out of daisies outside City Hall in Seoul.

Kim and Moon are going to be taking part in another symbolic event shortly - the planting of a pine tree, external on the military demarcation line.

The tree dates from 1953 - that's the year the Korean War armistice was signed - and will be planted in soil taken from the North and South, then water taken from rivers in both the North and South will be poured over it. The leaders' names and the words "plant peace and prosperity" will be inscribed on a plaque.

"The two leaders had a sincere and frank dialogue over the denuclearisation and the establishment of permanent peace of the Korean peninsula and development of inter-Korea ties," said Yoon Young-chan

A reminder: this is what Kim Jong-un told Moon Jae-in, as relayed by South Korea's presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan.

"Kim Jong-un said that he came here to put an end to the history of conflict, discuss and remove obstacles between us with the South Korean president. He said let's meet more often and we should be determined not to go back to square one. Kim also said let's live up to all the expectations and create a better world."

In case you were wondering, this is what North Koreans are seeing on their TV screens right now. State TV doesn't start broadcasting until 15:00 local time (06:30 GMT).

South Korea has said a joint declaration will be signed at the end of today's meetings.

If the two leaders manage to reach a breakthrough - likely something focusing on denuclearising the Korean peninsula - they might make a joint appearance at a signing ceremony. That's one to watch.

Here's a bit more on what outcome we might expect today.

A South Korean official has confirmed that the wives of both Korean leaders will attend the banquet this evening. We weren't sure about that until now.

President Moon's family is originally from the North - his parents fled to the South during the Korean War but they still have relatives across the border.

In a book released last year, he said he dreamed of returning to his parent's home town, Hungnam.

"I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro bono service," he wrote. "When peaceful reunification comes, the first thing I want to do is to take my 90-year-old mother and go to her home town."

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An interesting thing to note - Moon Jae-in has actually been to North Korea before. In 2004, when he was an aide to President Roh Moo-hyun (architect of the Sunshine Policy), he joined his mother on a visit to family members in the North as part of the family reunion programme.

A report at the time , externalsaid it was "the first visit ever by a core Blue House aide of the Roh Moo-hyun administration".

Writing in South Korea's Yonhap news agency, Song Sang-ho says Mr Kim "blurred the line" of the decades-long Korean division by inviting Mr Moon to cross the border hand in hand.

This, says the article, , externalwas "a symbolic move to position him as a key driver of reconciliation and peace".

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A concerned reader has just alerted us to an error: the snacks handed out in the press centre were in fact not bears (as we mistakenly assumed) but Ryan the lion, a cartoon character widely popular across South Korea.

We regret the error.

Every picture emerging from today's meeting seems remarkable. Here, Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in share a laugh before they go in for talks. A few months ago this was beyond unthinkable.

There have also been jokes aplenty at the summit. Mr Kim made a quip about North Korean noodles being popular in the south - he's right, lots of people are eating them today - and about waking Mr Moon up with his early morning missile launches.

Image source, AF

The BBC's Mariko Oi is broadcasting live on BBC World from South Korea. She sent us this picture - it's daisies which represent peace planted in the shape of a united Korean peninsula.

Chinese state media have given high-profile and generally positive coverage of the summit, say BBC Monitoring.

State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) broadcast the meeting live, saying the leaders looked "relaxed". The party-run People's Daily newspaper sent a message on social media calling the handshake a "historic moment".