North Korea Accepts South’s Proposal for Talks Next Week
- High-level discussions between Koreas scheduled for Tuesday
- Trump called talks a ‘good thing,’ delayed military exercises
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North Korea accepted a proposal to hold talks with South Korea on Tuesday, reducing tensions as President Moon Jae-in’s government prepared to host the Winter Olympics next month.
The agenda would include North Korea’s offer to send a delegation to the Games, as well as overall inter-Korean relations, South Korea’s Unification Ministry spokesman, Baik Tae Hyun, told reporters Friday. Preparations for the meeting at a border village -- what would be the first formal gathering between the two sides since 2015 -- would be done via letters, he said.