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Report: Kim Jong Un Meeting South Korean Delegation

New hope for easing tensions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was reportedly meeting with South Korea’s spy chief and top security adviser Monday, in what could be a breakthrough moment for international relations with the secretive regime. The meeting, in North Korea, comes a week after the North’s athletes and delegations took part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea. Kim has met few foreigners since taking control of the hermit state, other than former basketball star Dennis Rodman. “Kim Jong Un as a leader has kept himself highly circumscribed. This is not someone who has met with many non-North Koreans in almost six years,” John Delury, a professor at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Relations in Seoul, told CNN. “It’s a major signal of his personal commitment to this process.”