SEOUL, South Korea—Bitter rivals North and South Korea are on talking terms again, but their surprising cordiality still has moments of awkwardness, such when a senior North Korean official scolded a South Korean reporter over a question he didn’t like. After a moment of silence, Ri, who in the past has been described by South Korean counterparts as hot-tempered, ripped into the reporter. He called for questions that would “promote reconciliation and cooperation.”Ri is hardly the first North Korean official to chastise South Korean reporters over questions they found uncomfortable. But officials have been unusually cordial in recent months as North Korea reaches out to South Korea and the United States to reduce tensions. There have been plenty of awkward exchanges between North Korean officials and South Korean journalists during tenser times.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 01, 2018 11:03 UTC