North Korea has agreed to hold military talks with South Korea as the two nations move to reduce tensions on a peninsula that last year teetered on the edge of conflict.
The development came during the first bilateral negotiations between the Koreas in two years, during which Pyongyang agreed to send athletes and politicians to next month’s Winter Olympic Games in South Korea.
While warmly received by Seoul, where President Moon Jae-in was recently elected on a platform of detente towards the North, the thaw could complicate Washington’s efforts to impose “maximum pressure” on Pyongyang to halt its accelerating nuclear weapons programmes.
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