U.S. Says Thaw Between North, South Korea Helps Nuclear Talks
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The U.S. offered its support for the move by the leaders of two Koreas to improve relations and reconnect the hotlines cut off for more than a year, saying it might help stalled nuclear talks.
It was responding to what appeared to be a coordinated announcement Tuesday from Seoul and Pyongyang calling for reconciliation and reopening hotlines that had been silent since a flare-up in June 2020, when Kim Jong Un’s regime blew up a liaison office on its side of the border funded by South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s government -- one of Pyongyang’s most dramatic provocations in years.