North and South Korea began their first official talks in more than two years on Tuesday, focusing on the forthcoming Winter Olympics after months of tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
Regardless of its narrow, primarily sporting agenda, the meeting is being closely watched by world leaders eager for any sign of a reduction in tensions on the Korean peninsula amid rising fears over North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
"We came to this meeting today with the thought of giving our brethren, who have high hopes for this dialogue, invaluable results as the first present of the year...," head of North Korea's delegation Ri Son Gwon said.
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