So, there are good reasons to believe that relations between two Koreas have started to improve – or, to be more correct and cynical, good reasons to believe that decision makers in Pyongyang have decided to move from a pseudo-bellicose stage to a negotiation stage.

One of the issues on the table is the revival of the Kumgangsan Tourist Project (KTP), or Mount Kumgang. Once a flagship of North-South cooperation, the tourism zone has been frozen since 2008 and, from the North Korean point of view, is an ideal model of what form interaction with Seoul could take.