North Korea To Reopen Hotline To South To Discuss Olympics

North Korea has said it will reopen a telephone hotline to South Korea, to facilitate talks on its possible participation in the Winter Olympics.

Seoul’s Yonhap news agency reported that the inter-Korean communications channel would be restored at 15:30 local time (06:30 GMT) on Wednesday.

It comes after Kim Jong-un said he was “open to dialogue” with Seoul and to sending a team to the Games.




The two nations have not held high-level talks since December 2015.
A North Korean official announced the telephone hotline’s re-opening in a televised statement.

He said the two nations would discuss the practical issues around a proposal to send a North Korean delegation to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea in February.

“We will discuss working-level issues over our potential dispatch of the delegation,” Yonhap quoted the official as saying.

Source: BBC