Seoul: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday that North Korea should consider allowing families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War to confirm the fate of their relatives and exchange letters, amid no signs of progress in inter-Korean relations.

Lee has extended an olive branch to North Korea since taking office in June to try to mend frayed ties, but tensions remain high on the divided Korean Peninsula as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ruled out talks with South Korea and defined inter-Korean ties as those between “two states hostile to each other.”

“I think it is the responsibility of the political circles in both South and North to let the separated families confirm whether their relatives are alive and, at the very least, exchange letters,” he said during a meeting

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