US President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the demilitarized zone that splits the Korean Peninsula in two for the first time on Sunday.

US President Barack Obama. Source: AFP/TTXVN

His planned visit to the heavily fortified border is part of a three-day trip to South Korea to participate in a summit on nuclear security in Seoul. Ben Rhodes, US deputy national security adviser said Obama will also meet with some of the 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. He added that the President will meet with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the summit to discuss regional security issues as well as North Korea’s satellite launching plan.