SEOUL: The most senior South Koreans to travel North for more than a decade arrived in Pyongyang on Monday on a mission to push for talks between the nuclear-armed regime and the United States.

An intense rapprochement saw athletes from both sides of the divided peninsula march together at the South’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics last month, with the North’s leader Kim Jong Un sending his sister as a special envoy to the event.

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