South Korea offers direct talks with the North

South Korea offered to hold talks with North Korea to ease pressure along their tense border and resume reunions of families separated by their war in the 1950s.

"We request military talks with the North on July 21 at Tongilgak to stop all hostile activities that raise military tension at the military demarcation line," Suh Choo-suk, South Korea's vice defence minister, told a media briefing on Monday.

The proposal came roughly a week after Moon had said the need for dialogue with North Korea was more pressing than ever to curb North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes.

UCJ, UNILORIN.