Seoul — South Korea said on Wednesday it wanted to reopen communications with North Korea as new President Moon Jae-in seeks a two-track policy involving sanctions and dialogue with its reclusive neighbour to rein in its nuclear and missile programmes. North Korea has made no secret of the fact that it is working to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the US mainland and has ignored calls to rein in its nuclear and missile programmes, even from China, its lone major ally. Its latest ballistic missile launch, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, was on Sunday, which it said was a test of its capability to carry a "large-size heavy nuclear warhead", drawing security council condemnation. "Our most basic stance is that communication lines between South and North Korea should open," Lee Duk-haeng, a spokesperson for the South’s unification ministry, told reporters. "The unification ministry has considered options on this internally but nothing has been decide...
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