South Korea on Tuesday proposed holding talks with North Korea next week to discuss the North’s participation in the Winter Olympics and other measures to improve inter-Korean ties.
The offer came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un extended an olive branch to South Korea, expressing interest in sending North Korea’s delegation to the Winter Olympics to be held near Seoul next month.
The North Korean dictator said in his closely watched New Year speech that he was “open to dialogue” with South Korea to ease military tension on the peninsula although he vowed to expand its nuclear programmes and urged Washington to admit it as a nuclear power.