South Korea's Yoon offers new dialogue channel with North Korea

President calls for 'unification through freedom' of divided peninsula

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President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks at the South Korean government's Liberation Day ceremony in Seoul on Aug. 15.  © Kyodo

STEVEN BOROWIEC, Nikkei staff writer

SEOUL -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday offered to establish a channel for working-level talks with North Korea, part of what he described as a new vision for "freedom-based unification," as tensions between the long-divided states have spiked this year.

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