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South Korea Reviewing Various Options to Improve North Korea Ties
SOUTH KOREA, JUL 21 – South Korea explores allowing individual tours to North Korea to ease tensions and improve ties, with officials noting such travel complies with international sanctions, Unification Ministry says.
- 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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South Korea Stops Decades-Old Propaganda Broadcast Into North
(Bloomberg) — South Korea has suspended decades-old radio broadcasts into North Korea in its latest move to ease tensions, marking a symbolic win for Pyongyang by cutting off a rare source of uncensored information for its citizens.
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Since 2008, this possibility has been suspended. I just want to improve relations with the North and reduce tension on the peninsula, putting it in a way that does not violate international sanctions against Pyongyang.
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