{"id":17815,"date":"2018-01-09T03:21:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=17815"},"modified":"2018-01-09T03:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T03:21:06","slug":"after-seven-decades-of-tension-the-two-koreas-begin-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/after-seven-decades-of-tension-the-two-koreas-begin-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"After seven decades of tension, the two Koreas begin talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Jan 09, 2018<br \/>\nNorth and South Korea held their first talks for two years Tuesday, stirring hopes of a tentative rapprochement between the bitterly divided neighbours.<br \/>\nTensions soared last year as the North made rapid progress on its banned nuclear weapons programmes, while US President Donald Trump engaged in an increasingly bellicose verbal scrap with Pyongyang&#8217;s leader Kim Jong-Un.<br \/>\nHere are some key moments in the decades-long standoff between the two Koreas:<br \/>\nIn June 1950 fighting broke out between the communist North and capitalist South, sparking a brutal war that killed between two and four million people.<br \/>\nBeijing backed Pyongyang in the three-year conflict, while Washington threw its support behind the South &#8212; alliances that have largely endured.<br \/>\nThe Koreas have been locked in a dangerous dance ever since that conflict ended in 1953 with an armistice rather than a formal peace treaty, leaving them technically at war.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nThe secretive nation sent a team of 31 commandos to Seoul in a botched attempt to assassinate then-President Park Chung-Hee in 1968. All but two were killed.<br \/>\nIn the &#8220;axe murder incident&#8221; of 1976, North Korean soldiers attacked a work party trying to chop down a tree inside the Demilitarized Zone, leaving two US army officers dead.<br \/>\nPyongyang launched perhaps its most audacious assassination attempt in Myanmar in 1983, when a bomb exploded in a Yangon mausoleum during a visit by South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan. He survived but 21 people, including some government ministers, were killed.<br \/>\nIn 1987 a bomb on a Korean Air flight exploded over the Andaman Sea, killing all 115 people on board. Seoul accused Pyongyang, which denied involvement.<br \/>\nThe North&#8217;s founding leader Kim Il-Sung died in 1994, but under his son Kim Jong-Il it continued to prod its southern neighbour.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nIn 1996 a North Korean submarine on a spying mission ran aground off the eastern South Korean port of Gangneung, sparking 45-day manhunt that ended with 24 crew members and infiltrators killed.<br \/>\nA clash between South Korean and North Korean naval ships in 1999 left some 50 of the North&#8217;s soldiers dead.<br \/>\nIn March 2010 Seoul accused Pyongyang of torpedoing one of its corvette warships, killing 46 sailors. Pyongyang denied the charge.<br \/>\nNovember that year saw North Korea launch its first attack on a civilian-populated area since the war, firing 170 artillery shells at Yeonpyeong. Four people were killed, including two civilians.<br \/>\nNorth Korea has steadfastly pursued its banned nuclear and ballistic missile programmes since its first successful test of an atomic bomb in 2006, as it looks to build a rocket capable of delivering a warhead to the US mainland.<br \/>\nIts progress has accelerated under leader Kim Jong-Un, culminating in its sixth and biggest nuclear test in September 2017.<br \/>\nKim has since declared the country a nuclear power.<br \/>\nDespite the caustic effect of clashes and the battery of conventional weapons that the North has amassed at the border to threaten Seoul, the two nations have held talks in the past.<br \/>\nThen North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il held two historic summits with counterparts from the South in 2000 and 2007, which eased tensions between the neighbours.<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nLower-level talks since then have been much hyped but failed to produce significant results.<br \/>\nNext month&#8217;s Winter Olympics in the South have given the neighbours a pretext to reopen communications after a two-year hiatus.<br \/>\nA special cross-border hotline buzzed into life for the first time since 2016 last week, in response to a suggestion by Kim Jong-Un that Pyongyang could send a team to the Games, which the South has billed as its &#8220;Peace Olympics&#8221;.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Jan 09, 2018 North and South Korea held their first talks for two years Tuesday, stirring hopes of a tentative rapprochement between the bitterly divided neighbours. 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