North Korea has proposed talks with South Korea next week at the truce village on their heavily fortified border.
State news agency KCNA reports that Pyongyang wants working level talks on Thursday, November 26.
The offer breaks the silence from the North Korean side after a number of proposals for dialogue from South Korea.
If the talks go ahead, they’ll be the first since August, when the two sides agreed to ease escalating tensions.
Hostilities flared earlier that month when South Korea blamed the North for a land mine explosion in the neutral area of the DMZ, which injured two South Korean soldiers. Pyongyang denies responsibility.
As part of the recent agreement, separated families from both Koreas held emotional reunions in October. Millions of family members were separated after the 1950-1953 Korean War, which ended in an armistice not a peace treaty.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry says it is looking into Pyongyang’s offer of talks.