UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday welcomed progress in talks between North and South Korea to ease military tensions and the North Korean decision to send a delegation to next month's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, his spokesman said. Guterres welcomed 'the agreement to work to ease military tensions, hold military-to-military talks, and reopen the inter-Korean military hotline,' his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said in a statement. 'The re-establishment and strengthening of such channels is critical to lowering the risk of miscalculation or misunderstanding and to reduce tensions in the region,' the statement added.
