North Korea has agreed to hold high-level talks with South Korea next week as detente between the two nations picks up pace.
The talks — the first inter-Korean dialogue in more than two years — will focus on the North’s potential participation in next month’s Winter Olympics, which will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The move represents a turnround in the approach of North Korea, which throughout last year shunned dialogue as it focused on the development of an array of ballistic missiles and tested its largest nuclear weapon to date.
