South Korea has proposed high-level talks next week with rival North Korea to discuss resuming reunions of Korean War-divided families.
Seoul’s Unification Ministry in a statement on Monday said it suggested meeting on August 19 at the North Korean side of the truce border village of Panmunjom. The two countries last had a high-level meeting in February.
Since then, North Korea has conducted an unusually large number of missile and artillery tests. Pyongyang has also expressed fury over U.S-South Korean military drills.
The latest six-day family reunions in February were the first such meetings in more than three years.