South Korea says willing to establish talks with North Korea

South Korean President Yoon called for a working-level consultative body with North Korea to alleviate tensions between the neighbors and resume economic cooperation.

The new inter-Korean working group "could take up any issue ranging from relieving tensions to economic cooperation, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and disaster and climate-change responses," Yoon said in an address on Thursday.Dialogue and cooperation can bring about substantive progress in inter-Korean relations, he also said.