JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: CNN State Department correspondent Andrea Koppel reports the U.S. State Department is poised to ease a number of sanctions against North Korea, perhaps as early as next week. South Korea's national security adviser is expected to meet with U.S. officials tomorrow to discuss the action. Meanwhile, the historic summit between the leaders of North and South Korea has ended, as CNN's Mike Chinoy reports.</s>MIKE CHINOY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The president of South Korea, returning home to a hero's welcome after a three-day summit in Pyongyang which could bring the Cold War on the Korean Peninsula to an end. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Seoul to welcome the president, just as huge crowds lined the streets of the North Korean capital to greet him there, expressions of the intense public desire for reunification on both halves of this divided peninsula. "A new day has dawned," Kim Dae-jung declared as he arrived in Seoul. "We have put an end to 55 years of separation and hostility." But with the images from Pyongyang of Kim and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il embracing and forging a historic communique to reduce tension and boost cooperation still fresh, the South Korean president also urged caution, warning that progress would be slow. That didn't discourage the tens of thousands of South Koreans with family members in the North, hoping for news of their loved ones now, after so many decades. "It's going to take time," said this man, who left his sister and parents in the North during the Korean War. "But I'm more hopeful now than I've ever been." (on camera): For two governments still technically in a state of war, what happened in Pyongyang exceeded anyone's wildest hopes, but unless the promises of reconciliation are turned into concrete achievements, those hopes could yet be dashed. Mike Chinoy, CNN, Seoul.
South Korean President Welcomed Home After Landmark Summit