The South Korean government has accepted the high-level military talks proposed by North Korea today, as reported. Pyongyang had proposed a meeting between defense ministers of both countries and had promised that Seoul was free to decide the topics, schedule and venue of the meeting, as the television channel YTN.Relations between the two Koreas are severely damaged after the attack with mortars North Korea to South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea on 23 November last year, which caused four deaths. In early January, the regime of Kim Jong-il proposed an unconditional dialogue with South Korea to resolve the crisis, but Seoul welcomed the proposal and asked coldly before a serious and responsible commitment to Pyongyang.
However, after the alert was lowered in the tense border in the Yellow Sea, and a few days later the two Koreas revived the hotline between their Red Cross offices in the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom, suspended since May last year. Both Seoul and the U.S., its main ally, have called on North Korea to show with actions "concrete" its willingness to dialogue and not repeat its strategy of increasing tension in the area with provocations to, immediately afterwards, access to lower it to change compensation.
The two Koreas are in a state of military tension since the end of the conflict that pitted between 1950 and 1953, which ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
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