Unification Ministry In Seoul

Seoul's Unification Ministry on Monday added its voice to growing speculation around Kim Jong Un's succession plans, saying they have not "ruled out" that his daughter could be next in line to lead North Korea.

Pyongyang on Tuesday released a South Korean detainee "arrested for entering the North illegally" last month, Seoul's unification ministry said, as ties improve between the two countries following a summit between their leaders in April.

North Korea and South Korea have agreed to hold working-level talks at the Tongil Pavilion on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom on January 15, South Korea's unification ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

North Korea on today proposed working-level talks with South Korea next week, apparently aimed at setting up a high-level dialogue that the two rivals had agreed to in August.

North Korea has withdrawn a ban imposed on two South Korean administrators from entering a jointly-run industrial complex in the North, a Seoul spokesman said today.

North and South Korea have agreed to re-open a shuttered industrial park on a trial basis starting on Monday, the South's Unification Ministry said in a statement, in a sign of a further thaw between two countries that remain technically at war.

A day after snubbing Seoul by offering to send a junior official to hold the first supposedly high-level talks between the two Koreas in six years, North Korea appeared to be refusing to pick up a phone line it re-established just last Friday.

Seoul's Unification Ministry on Monday added its voice to growing speculation around Kim Jong Un's succession plans, saying they have not "ruled out" that his daughter could be next in line to lead North Korea.

Pyongyang on Tuesday released a South Korean detainee "arrested for entering the North illegally" last month, Seoul's unification ministry said, as ties improve between the two countries following a summit between their leaders in April.

North Korea and South Korea have agreed to hold working-level talks at the Tongil Pavilion on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom on January 15, South Korea's unification ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

North Korea on today proposed working-level talks with South Korea next week, apparently aimed at setting up a high-level dialogue that the two rivals had agreed to in August.

North Korea has withdrawn a ban imposed on two South Korean administrators from entering a jointly-run industrial complex in the North, a Seoul spokesman said today.

North and South Korea have agreed to re-open a shuttered industrial park on a trial basis starting on Monday, the South's Unification Ministry said in a statement, in a sign of a further thaw between two countries that remain technically at war.

A day after snubbing Seoul by offering to send a junior official to hold the first supposedly high-level talks between the two Koreas in six years, North Korea appeared to be refusing to pick up a phone line it re-established just last Friday.