South Korea proposes inter-korean talks in January

Monday, South Korea proposed to North Korea high-level discussions on the painful issue of reuniting families separated by war.
This initiative comes while Pyongyang is under pressure about his record on human rights and the hacking of Sony Pictures.
Ryoo Kuhl-Jae, south-korean Unification Minister in charge of north-korean affairs, said he was ready at a press conference to meet with representatives of the north-korean regime to Seoul like Pyongyang. The minister added that he hoped North Korea would respond to this proposal. "We are ready to discuss all matters of mutual interest", said the minister, who said that a formal proposal to revive the talks had been sent to his north-korean counterpart Kim Yang-Gon. Besides the issue of families, the Minister said that the talks could focus on events organized to mark the 70th anniversary of the division of the peninsula occurred at the end of the Second World War in 1945, five years before the Korean War (1950-1953). "We need dialogue and cooperation to implement such projects", he said. "I hope that the talks will alleviate the pain of separated families before the Lunar New year" he said, referring to the celebrations of the february 19th.
The last official meeting between the two Koreas back in february. He had allowed the meeting of families, but the wire was then broken due to increased military tension. The two rival states decided in october to resume their discussions at the end of a rare and unexpected visit to Seoul of three leaders of the north-korean regime. But following of border clashes, the dialogue didn't take place. The situation hadn't arranged with the dispersion over the border of pamphlets hostile to the north-korean regime by south-korean activists. North asked the South in advance of a resumption of talks to end the releases of leaflets. Seoul argues that it has no legal basis to ban these releases. In a state of almost permanent confrontation, the two Koreas are technically still at war, did not sign a peace treaty after the armistice.