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Round-table discussion on Korea coming Sunday AP PHOTO In this April 21 photo, people watch a TV screen showing an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. The signs read: "North Korea says it has suspended nuclear tests." North Korea's abrupt diplomatic outreach in recent months comes after a flurry of weapons tests that marked 2017, including the underground detonation of an alleged thermonuclear warhead and three launches of developmental ICBMs designed to strike the U.S. mainland. Inter-Korean dialogue resumed after Kim in his New YearþÄôs speech proposed talks with the South to reduce animosities and for the North to participate in FebruaryþÄôs Winter Olympics in Pyongchang. North Korea sent hundreds of people to the games, including Kim's sister, who expressed her brother's desire to meet with Moon for a summit. South Korean officials later brokered a potential summit between Kim and Trump. Tuesday Apr 24, 2018 at 11:51 AM Apr 24, 2018 at 11:51 AM A round-table discussion on peace in Korea on Sunday in Ashland features international human rights attorney Eric Sirotkin. Sirotkin, who has been to North Korea multiple times and worked with Congress and the State Department to, according to an event announcement, “move from reaction to relationship,” is a co-founder of the Ashland Culture of Peace Commission (ACPC) and a TV commentator. His recent book “Witness: A Lawyer’s Journey from Litigation to Liberation” presents a 12-step model for peace in Korea. Attendees will learn more about what they can do and why there has been no peace on the Korean peninsula. The gathering takes place two days after a summit meeting between the presidents of North and South Korea and no long before a planned summit meeting between the U.S. and North Korean presidents. The free, public discussion is sponsored by the Ubuntuworks Peace Education Project and the ACPC. It begins at 6:30 p.m. April 29 at the ACPC office at 33 North First St. For more information, email [email protected].