North and South Korea are tomorrow to hold rare direct talks, offering hopes of a detente that could defuse tensions that have worsened since Pyongyang's launch of a long-range rocket earlier this month.
North Korea requested the meeting but has not specified the core issue it sought to discuss, saying only that it wanted to deliver an “important message”.
Tensions on the peninsula are at their highest for a decade after Pyongyang riled the United Nations by firing a long-range rocket over Japan, expelling nuclear inspectors and vowing to restart a reactor that makes weapons-grade plutonium.
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