{"id":342843,"date":"2018-01-08T06:15:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/talks-between-north-and-south-korea-to-proceed\/"},"modified":"2018-01-08T06:15:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:15:47","slug":"talks-between-north-and-south-korea-to-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/talks-between-north-and-south-korea-to-proceed\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks between North and South Korea to proceed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Talks between North and South Korea to proceed<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Peter Symonds<br \/>\n    <br \/>6 January 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The first official meeting between the two Koreas in more than two years is scheduled for Tuesday after North Korea formally accepted a South Korean offer of talks yesterday. Both sides will convene at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that divides the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea made the offer this week after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un used his New Year\u2019s address to call for talks \u201cas soon as possible\u201d to discuss North Korea\u2019s participation in the Winter Olympics, scheduled for South Korea in February. More broadly Kim declared: \u201cNorth and South must work together to alleviate the tensions and work together as a people of the same heritage to find peace and stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early yesterday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his US counterpart Donald Trump agreed to delay the major Foal Eagle and Key Resolve joint military drills until after the Winter Olympics. Trump declared it would be a \u201cgood thing\u201d if the meeting went ahead. These annual war games have always raised tensions with Pyongyang. They amount to a rehearsal for war with North Korea and last year involved more than 300,000 American and South Korean troops.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of the postponement of the war games, the North-South meeting was announced. Seoul\u2019s unification ministry said it received a fax from Ri Son-gwon, head of the North\u2019s Committee for Peaceful Reunification of Korea, saying Pyongyang would participate in the talks. North and South Korea also reopened their cross-border hotline on Wednesday for the first time in months.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will take place under conditions of extreme tension on the Korean Peninsula as a result of the Trump administration\u2019s campaign of \u201cmaximum&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/01\/06\/nkor-j06.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Talks between North and South Korea to proceed By Peter Symonds 6 January 2018 The first official meeting between the two Koreas in more than two years is scheduled for Tuesday after North Korea formally accepted a South Korean offer of talks yesterday. Both sides will convene at the truce village of Panmunjom in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}