Seoul — North and South Korea agreed on Friday to hold their first talks in more than two years, hours after Seoul and Washington decided to defer joint military exercises — which always infuriate Pyongyang — until after the Winter Olympics. The meeting, the first since December 2015, will take place in Panmunjom, the truce village in the heavily fortified demilitarised zone that divides the peninsula. South Korean President Moon Jae-in said "overly optimistic expectations" were "undesirable" but, "We will do our best to make the Pyeongchang Olympics an Olympics for peace and settle the nuclear issue peacefully." Tension has been high after the North carried out multiple missile launches in 2017, including a number of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and its sixth atomic test, by far its most powerful to date. The tentative rapprochement comes after the North’s leader Kim Jong-un warned in his New Year speech that he had a nuclear button on his desk, but at the same time...
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