North Korea Thaws Ties With South as Gaeseong Talks Progress

The two Koreas agreed to hold a second round of talks on July 10 on resuming operations at a joint factory park, the best progress yet toward mending ties that soured after the North’s February nuclear weapon test.

Negotiators ended more than 16 hours of meetings at the Panmunjom border village yesterday with an agreement to hold follow-up talks this week on normalizing work at the Gaeseong industrial zone, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency reported.