SEOUL: North and South Korea will hold a seventh round of talks on Wednesday on reopening their joint industrial park in Kaesong, with a lot more than the future of the complex riding on the outcome.

With South Korea kicking off a military exercise with the United States next week, the result of the negotiations could determine whether the peninsula is sucked into another dangerous cycle of escalating tensions.

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