TOKYO (Sputnik) – The talks, proposed for November 26, would be the first high-level meeting to be held since August, when the neighbors agreed to diffuse military tensions, the channel said on Friday, citing North Korea’s official KCNA news agency.
South and North Korea are still formally at war, as no peace treaty was ever signed after the Korean War of 1950-1953.
Tensions between the two Koreas escalated in late August when cross-border artillery fire erupted along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), prompting Pyongyang to declare what it described as a "semi-state of war." The two countries eventually defused tensions after a series of talks.
In October, North and South Korea held a series of family reunions that were agreed upon after the August negotiations between the two sides.
More than 66,000 families were separated by the Korean War.
