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NORTH and South Korea agreed to restart stalled discussions on their contact with each other on Saturday, Seoul said.
Three top-ranking Pyongyang officials — including Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s apparent number two Hwang Pyong So — made a surprise visit to South Korea for the close of the Asian Games.
“The two sides agreed to discuss details for the resumption of the high-level contact,” Seoul’s Reunification Ministry said in a statement.
The North Korean trio expressed a “willingness” to restart talks between late October and early November, the statement added.
South Korea has made repeated overtures to the North for dialogue — the last before Saturday related mainly to family reunions in February — while at the same time carrying out provocative military drills with the United States and pursuing an apparent strategy of “unification through absorption.”
