Tourists may soon get the chance to take the perfect selfie in the highly fortified border zone between North and South Korea, where the countries two leaders had a first historic handshake in April.

Discussions are under way to allow public access to the border demarcation line in the Joint Security Area, where Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in, the South Korean President, greeted each other with smiles and a hug at their first summit earlier this year.

The move was revealed by the South’s defence ministry on Wednesday as one of several measures to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula during something of a diplomatic détente.

If agreement can be reached it would be another sign of the rapid turnaround in relations between North and South who only last year faced a stand-off that many feared could lead to military confrontation.

The Joint Security Area last November was the scene of the dramatic defection of Oh Chong-song, who was shot multiple times as he dashed across the border to the South. The young soldier later recovered from his injuries.

The proposed plan to open up the border would also apply to South Korean nationals who have been barred from taking part in such trips, apart from exceptional circumstances, since the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953.