More than saber-rattling and trading insults can achieve, quiet and calm diplomacy may have a better chance of cooling the fever and tensions in the Korean peninsula which now threaten to spiral into a full-blown war.

Last week, there was promising and encouraging news that the United Nations, through one of its top officials, has made significant contact with the government of North Korea and secured its interest in conducting regular communication.

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