North, South Korea Agree to Resolve Issues Through Dialogue

North Korean chief delegate Ri Son-Gwon (R) talks with South Korea Unification Minister Cho Myung-Gyun (front L) during their meeting at the border truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas on Jan. 9, 2018. North and South Korea began their first official talks in more than two years on Jan. 9, focussing on the forthcoming Winter Olympics after months of tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme. Korea Pool/AFP/Getty Images

SEOUL—North and South Korea on Tuesday agreed on negotiations to resolve problems and military talks aimed at averting accidental conflict, after their first official dialogue in more than two years, as Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program fuels tension.

In a joint statement after the 11-hour talks, the North pledged to send a large delegation to next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South, but made a ’strong complaint' after Seoul proposed talks to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.