{"id":43251,"date":"2018-01-10T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43251"},"modified":"2018-01-10T15:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:50:34","slug":"s-korea-willing-to-meet-norths-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43251","title":{"rendered":"S Korea willing to meet North&#8217;s leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SEOUL Jan 10 (TNS):<\/strong> South Korea\u2019s president says he\u2019s willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un under certain conditions, after their countries agreed in high-level talks to cooperate in next month\u2019s Winter Olympics in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday he\u2019s open to meeting with Kim to resolve the North Korean nuclear standoff. But he says the success of such a summit must be guaranteed before the meeting can be realized.<\/p>\n<p>Moon also says he will call for more talks with North Korea to help defuse the nuclear issue.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Koreas held their first high-level talks in two years. North Korea agreed to send a delegation to the Games and both sides agreed to hold talks on reducing tensions along their border.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s president says he\u2019ll push for more talks and cooperation with North Korea to resolve the nuclear standoff.<\/p>\n<p>President Moon Jae-in spoke Wednesday, a day after the two Koreas held high-level talks for the first time in two years and agreed to cooperate in next month\u2019s Winter Olympics in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea will send a delegation of officials, athletes and others to the Feb. 9-25 Games and both sides agreed to hold talks on reducing tensions along their border.<\/p>\n<p>The accord followed a year of heightened tension over the North\u2019s nuclear program that saw the danger of war on the peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL Jan 10 (TNS): South Korea\u2019s president says he\u2019s willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un under certain conditions, after their countries agreed in high-level talks to cooperate in next month\u2019s Winter Olympics in South Korea. President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday he\u2019s open to meeting with Kim to resolve the North Korean nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,847],"tags":[848,733],"class_list":["post-43251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-seoul","tag-seoul","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251","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=43251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43253,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251\/revisions\/43253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}