Cautious overtures to Kim Jong-un from the South being undermined by the US
Despite the painstaking efforts of Moon Jae-in,South Korea’s president, to use this week’s opening of the Winter Olympics to build bridges with North Korea, or Donald Trump remains locked on a dangerous collision course with what he calls Kim Jong-un’s “wicked regime”. Kim’s final-minute acceptance of Moon’s invitation to send a North Korean delegation to the Games,which get under way in Pyeongchang on Friday, raised hopes that tensions with the US and its allies over the Norths nuclear weapons build-up and missile tests may be defused, and at least in share. North Korea agreed to send nearly two dozen athletes,cheerleaders and an orchestra in a delegation numbering more than 200 people.
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Source: guardian.co.uk