North-South talks as Korea relations thaw

SOUTH Korea is today expected to send a team of special envoys to the North as an unprecedented thaw in relations continues.

Ten delegates from Seoul will try to open dialogue between the US and Pyongyang in the hopes of easing a nuclear standoff. A spokesman said the delegates will spend two days on ‘extensive discussions’.

The move is the latest chapter in the detente that started during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Relations between Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un plummeted before the Games.