SEOUL—South Korea’s president called on the U.S. to ease preconditions for talks with North Korea, as his government sought to extend an Olympics-driven rapprochement with Pyongyang and head off any new flare-up in tensions. In a meeting Monday with a Chinese envoy, President Moon Jae-in said “the U.S. needed to lower the threshold for dialogue,” according to a presidential spokesman. Moon also said North Korea should “indicate a willingness to give up its nuclear programs.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 26, 2018 12:22 UTC