US EditionSouth Korea Reviewing Various Options to Improve North Korea Ties
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, JUL 21 – South Korea considers allowing individual travel and people-to-people exchanges to ease tensions with North Korea amid the worst relations in years, officials said.
- South Korea is studying various plans to improve relations with North Korea, according to a spokesperson for South Korea's Unification Ministry.
- The president suspended anti-North Korea broadcasts along the border and halted leaflet campaigns against North Korea's leaders.
- North Korea recently opened a beach resort in Wonsan, but it is temporarily not accepting foreign visitors.
- South Korea suspended tours to North Korea's Mount Kumgang area in 2008 after a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a North Korean soldier.
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Al Jazeera
South Korea mulls allowing individual tours to North Korea as tensions ease
South Korea is considering allowing individual tours to North Korea as it studies ways to improve relations with its neighbour, a spokesperson for South Korea’s Ministry of Unification says.
Channel News Asia
South Korea reviewing various options to improve North Korea ties
South Korea is studying various plans to improve relations with North Korea, a spokesperson for South Korea's Unification Ministry said on Monday (Jul 21), in response to a media report that Seoul is considering allowing individual tours to North Korea.
Seoul says reviewing measures to improve ties with NK amid report on individual trips to North
South Korea is reviewing various measures to ease tensions and improve ties with North Korea, the unification ministry said Monday, following a news report that permitting individual trips to the North is under consideration. "The government is formulating and pursuing North Korea policies with the goal of easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula and improving inter-Korean ties, with various measures under consideration in the process," the unifi…
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