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2 Koreas to hold summit in April, North eyes nuclear talks with US
The two Koreas agreed to hold their first summit in over a decade in late April, with the North voicing a readiness to hold denuclearization talks with the United States, the South said Tuesday, in a breakthrough that has lifted hopes for peace on the Korean Peninsula and beyond. While vowing to suspend missile and nuclear activities during the period of dialogue with Washington on denuclearization and normalization of bilateral ties, Pyongyang also said there is no reason to possess nuclear weapons in the presence of security guarantees and the absence of threats, according to South Korean officials briefing ... (full story)