SEOUL: North Korea on Saturday suggested holding a preparatory meeting with South Korea ahead of proposed military talks between the two foes that it said could "prevent in advance a second Korean war."

The military dialogue had initially been offered by leader Kim Jung-un in his speech to a rare congress of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party earlier this month, but Seoul dismissed it as posturing.

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