South Korean President Moon Jae-In’s provision on Tuesday offered high-level talks to its northern neighbor even as Pyongyang and Washington began the New Year with cool hostile rhetoric.
And on Wednesday, the pariah state reopened its cross-border communications trench with its southern neighbor for the first time in almost two years. President Donald Trump has since claimed it was his sound rhetoric against North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that resulted in bright dialogue.
Expectations for inter-Korean dialogue rose after North Korean the man Kim Jong Un said on Monday that he was open to sending a delegation to the upcoming Winter Olympics in the South Korean metropolis of PyeongChang.