{"id":41583,"date":"2018-01-03T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T07:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41583"},"modified":"2018-01-03T12:43:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T07:43:14","slug":"n-korea-says-will-open-inter-korean-hotline-with-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41583","title":{"rendered":"N Korea says will open inter-Korean hotline with South"},"content":{"rendered":"

PYONGYANG Jan 03 (TNS):<\/strong> \u00a0North Korea has said it will restore the inter-Korean hotline with the South.<\/p>\n

Pyongyang said Wednesday it will restore a hotline with the South at 0630 GMT, after Seoul proposed high-level talks in response to Kim Jong-Un’s calls for better relations and suggestion his country might attend the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

Kim also welcomed Seoul’s support for his overtures, a North Korean official told state television.<\/p>\n

In his New Year address, Kim warned the US that he has a “nuclear button” on his table, but extended an olive branch to the South, saying his country might take part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics next month.<\/p>\n

In response, South Korea’s unification minister Cho Myoung-Gyon on Tuesday offered to hold high-level talks on January 9 to discuss the North’s participation in the Olympics as well as other matters of mutual interest.<\/p>\n

“By upholding a decision by the leadership, we will make close contact with South Korea in a sincere and faithful manner,” the Yonhap news agency quoted Ri Son-gwon, the head of North Korea’s agency handling inter-Korean affairs, as saying.<\/p>\n

It reported that the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) said it will discuss practical matters involving the participation of North Korean athletes at the Pyeongchang Games.<\/p>\n

Kim “expressed welcome” after South Korean President Moon Jae-In said he supported Kim’s offer of seeking reconciliation, Ri said on North Korean state TV monitored in Seoul.APP<\/p>\n

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PYONGYANG Jan 03 (TNS): \u00a0North Korea has said it will restore the inter-Korean hotline with the South. Pyongyang said Wednesday it will restore a hotline with the South at 0630 GMT, after Seoul proposed high-level talks in response to Kim Jong-Un’s calls for better relations and suggestion his country might attend the Winter Olympics. Kim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1285,733],"class_list":["post-41583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pyongyang","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41586,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41583\/revisions\/41586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}