North Korea and South Korea to hold first talks in 2 years

Kim Jong Un.
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North Korea has accepted South Korea's invitation to discuss ways to cooperate on the upcoming Winter Olympics, and agreed to meet at the border village of Panmunjom on Tuesday, South Korea's Unification Ministry announced Friday.

This will be the first formal dialogue between Pyongyang and Seoul in more than two years, and they will also discuss how to improve ties between the countries. On Thursday, the United States and South Korea agreed to postpone their joint military exercises until after the Pyeongchang Olympics in February; North Korea considers the annual military exercises preparation for an invasion.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.