
SEOUL, Aug 7: North Korea dismissed offers of talks from the South during a rare exchange between the two rivals’ Foreign Ministers, Seoul’s Yonhap news agency reported on Monday after the United tions imposed a new round of sanctions on nuclear-armed Pyongyang. News of the brief encounter on the sidelines of a regiol forum in Manila came as the South’s President Moon Jae-In urged a “peaceful resolution” to the tensions in a telephone conversation with his United States counterpart Dold Trump.