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- Senior North and South Korean parliamentarians shook hands and shared a toast to “peace” with Swiss wine on Tuesday.
- South Korean MP and politician Young Chin shook hands with Ri Jong Hyok, director of North Korea’s National Reunification Institute and deputy head of its Supreme People’s Assembly.
- They were attending the annual assembly in Geneva of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Senior North and South Korean parliamentarians shook hands and shared a toast to “peace” with Swiss wine on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said, in a rare gesture of friendship suggesting relations between their two countries are thawing.
South Korean MP and politician Young Chin shook hands with Ri Jong Hyok, director of North Korea’s National Reunification Institute and deputy head of its Supreme People’s Assembly.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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