Friday’s inter-Korean summit has been welcomed by residents inside North Korea and in the Chinese borderlands region, multiple sources told NK News on Monday.

And while Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in’s Friday commitment towards denuclearization and Sunday’s sudden Pyongyang timezone change might be seen to contradict state ideology, sources said no negative questions have been raised in public.

“Generally people were starved for information on Friday and Saturday before (state media) published,” an anonymous foreign resident in Pyongyang told NK News on Monday.

But after details were revealed in North Korea’s state newspapers and broadcast on state TV, interest