North Korea has announced on Wednesday that it will reopen cross-border communications with South Korea in a sign of easing animosity between the rival nations, Seoul said.
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un ordered the border hotline to be reopened for talks later on Wednesday, Reuters reported, citing North Korean state media.
South Korea proposed high-level talks with Pyongyang on Tuesday to strategize ways to cooperate during the upcoming Winter Olympics, the olive branch coming after Kim expressed desire to send his own athletes to the games — which the South’s sports minister said could usher in peace and prosperity on the peninsula after a year of nuclear war threats.
South Korea’s unification minister Cho Myoung-gyon, during a nationally televised news conference, suggested the two rival countries will meet on Jan. 9 at the shared border village of Panmunjom to discuss Olympic cooperation and how to improve overall ties.
North Korean soldiers watching South Korea as the United Nations Command officials visit after the commemoration of 64th anniversary of the Korean armistice (July 27, 2017) at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
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