Explainer: What's going on between North and South Korea and why are tensions rising again now?
Analysts say recent tensions come from North Korea’s desire to have sanctions eased.
Analysts say recent tensions come from North Korea’s desire to have sanctions eased.
Defectors have sent leaflets to the North by balloon and bottle criticising Kim Jong Un over his weapons programmes and human rights abuses.
Trump on Tuesday had said the US would halt “war games” with its South Korean security ally.
Seoul and Pyongyang have remained technically at war since the 1950s.
They’ll compete in hockey, figure skating, short-track speed skating, cross-country skiing and Alpine skiing.
Northern officials complained that Southern delegates ranked too low within the Southern government, and have abandoned talks.
Meanwhile, North Korea has dismissed the South’s offer for dialogue on the future of the Kaesong joint industrial zone.
South Korean newspaper claims the North is digging tunnels at the site of two previous nuclear tests in preparation for a third, as relations between the two remain strained.