SEOUL -- South Korea has proposed a fresh round of military talks with Pyongyang, the Defense Ministry in Seoul said Monday, in a bid to de-escalate tensions on the border. If a meeting takes place, it will mark the first military talks between the neighbors in three years. The ministry, which gave no agenda for the talks, said it was still waiting for an answer from Pyongyang. Tensions currently are running high on the Korean Peninsula, after a year in which the North has carried out two nuclear tests and numerous ballistic missile tests despite international condemnation and U.N. sanctions. Despite the North's aggression and increasingly belligerent noises from Washington, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has emphasized the importance of getting Pyongyang back to the negotiating table.

Source: The China Post July 17, 2017 06:33 UTC