SEOUL: A top South Korean official offered Monday to hold high-level talks with North Korea in January, as Pyongyang battles growing pressure over human rights and a cyber row with the US.
Ryoo Kihl-Jae, the South’s unification minister in charge of North Korean affairs, said he was willing to meet in Seoul or the North’s capital Pyongyang for the rare high-level talks. “I hope that the North will show an active response to this offer,” Ryoo said in a press conference.
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