North Korea yesterday sugges-ted holding a preparatory meeting with South Korea ahead of proposed military talks  that it said could "prevent in advance a second Korean war”, reports AFP.
The military dialogue had initially been offered by leader Kim Jung-Un in his speech to a rare congress of North’s ruling Workers' Party earlier this month, but Seoul dismissed it as posturing.
Pyongyang reiterated the offer on Friday, only to be rebuffed again by Seoul the same day. Apparently undeterred, on Saturday the North pushed for a preparatory meet.
"We propose to hold working-level contact for opening the north-south military authorities' talks at the date and place both sides deem convenient in late May or early June," North Korea's defence ministry was quoted as saying in a statement carried by state media.