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South Korea’s Yoon offers working-level talks with North Korea

BY REUTERS South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol offered on Thursday to establish a working-level consultative body with North Korea to discuss ways to ease tension and resume economic cooperation, as he laid out his vision on unification of the neighbours. In a National Liberation Day speech marking the 79th anniversary of independence from Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule after World War Two, Yoon said he was ready to begin political and economic cooperation if North Korea “takes just one step” toward denuclearisation. Yoon used the speech as a chance to unveil a blueprint for unification and make a fresh outreach to Pyongyang, following his government’s recent offer to provide relief supplies for flood damage in the isolated North which he […]

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