South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung said Monday he hopes that Pope Leo XIV will visit North Korea as a gesture of peace on the Korean Peninsula, the Yonhap News agency reported.

Up in the hills above Lake Albano, a half-hour drive from Rome, is a small town known for impressive panoramas, a temperate climate and, above all, its world-famous visitor: the pope. Castel Gandolfo, ...