Nuclear-armed North Korea Friday accepted the South’s offer of talks next week, said Seoul’s Unification Ministry, which oversees relations with Pyongyang
Seoul: Nuclear-armed North Korea Friday accepted the South’s offer of talks next week, said Seoul’s Unification Ministry, which oversees relations with Pyongyang.
The meeting will take place in Panmunjom, the truce village in the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula.
Tensions have been high after the North carried out multiple missile launches in 2017, including a number of ICBMs, and its sixth atomic test, by far its most powerful to date.
The tentative rapprochement comes after the North’s leader Kim Jong-Un warned in his New Year speech that he had a nuclear button on his desk, but at the same time offered Seoul an olive branch, saying Pyongyang could send a team to next month’s Winter Olympics in the South.
