South Korean Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on Tuesday he would try to derive a mutually beneficial trade agreement with the United States, in comments ahead of his departure to Washington to meet U.

Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Monday that Pyongyang had "no interest" in efforts by Seoul to improve relations.

The North Korean leader’s influential sister, Kim Yo Jong, dismissed efforts by South Korea’s new president to improve relations and said there is no interest in restarting talks with Seoul, in the first remarks directed at the South’s Administration that took office last month.

There has been cautious optimism in the South that the North may respond positively and may even show willingness to re-engage in dialogue.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister said South Korea’s recent peace overtures were ‘not even something worth our assessment’.

To address educational inequality and stimulate regional economies, President Lee’s ‘10 SNU’ initiative must surmount financial, structural and cultural challenges.

For the first time since South Korea’s new president assumed office, Pyongyang explicitly nixed the Lee administration’s pro-dialogue approach to North Korea.

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