South Korea offers talks with North on Olympic cooperation

South Korea offered high-level talks with rival North Korea on Tuesday to find ways to cooperate on next month’s Winter Olympics in the South. Seoul’s quick proposal after a rare rapprochement overture a day earlier from the North offers the possibility of better ties after a year of increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Monday he was willing to send a delegation to the Olympics, though he repeated fiery nuclear threats against the U.S.