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This is actually extremely smart posturing on the DPRK's part. My guess is that Kim Jong-un, unlike his father, isn't particularly interested in pursuing a policy of reunification. If he starts warming relations with ROK, and continues to draw Trump into hostile tirades, he can easily get ROK to realize that Trump and the US are obstacles to peace on their border, not facilitators of it. Improving relations with ROK and driving a wedge between ROK/US will result in an improvement in the DPRK's national security and entrenchment of the dictatorship. Trump is doing a great job of playing right into Rocket Man's hand.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea reopened a border hotline with South Korea on Wednesday, restoring a channel of direct dialogue and signaling a possible thaw in relations between the two Koreas after years of hair-trigger tensions.
The return of the telephone hotline at the village of Panmunjom, which straddles the Demilitarized Zone, the world’s most heavily guarded border, came two days after North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, made a rare overture to the South.
In his New Year’s Day speech on Monday, Mr. Kim continued his nuclear threat against Washington, saying he had a “nuclear button” ready to launch a weapon against any target in the United States. But he also proposed negotiations with South Korea to discuss easing military tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula and his country’s possible participation in the Winter Olympics, which are being held in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang next month.