North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (front C) attends a photo session with delegates to the 7th Congress of the Korean Children's Union (KCU) in Pyongyang June 6, 2013 in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) June 7, 2013. REUTERS/KCNA
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said it would reopen a Red Cross hotline with South Korea on Friday and invited officials from Seoul to talks over the weekend, a further sign Pyongyang wants to improve ties after a barrage of threats to wage war earlier this year.
On Thursday, North Korea proposed talks to normalise commercial projects, including a joint industrial zone it shut down at the height of tensions in early April.
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