North Korea’s Kim Jong-un appears to be reversing his hardline policy for now and holding out a tentative hand to his neighbour to the south – and maybe his arch-enemy the US as well.
In what appears like a carefully contrived move to bury the hatchet, meaning his nukes and missiles, Kim has just told a rare congress of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang that “the changed times” call for “comprehensively and expanding external relations”.
That calculated verbiage highlighted a report covering “affairs with south [sic] Korea as required by the prevailing situation”.
