North Korea Trades Scorn for Flattery to Win Benefits From Moon
- Pyongyang restores hotlines with Seoul after two-month break
- North Korea shifts tone in effort to draw ally away from U.S.
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North Korea has labeled Moon Jae-in a meddlesome mediator and reduced to rubble a $15 million liaison office that was one of the South Korean president’s biggest diplomatic achievements.
On Monday, however, Kim Jong Un’s regime abruptly restored communication with South Korea via hotlines that Pyongyang had let fall silent for about two months. The move came after Kim’s sister praised Moon as a man of admirable ideas.