朝韓決定下週舉行高層會談

North Korea and South Korea have agreed to hold high-level talks next week amid signs of warming relations on the peninsula.

朝鮮和韓國已同意下週舉行高層會談，朝鮮半島出現兩國關係回暖跡象。

The talks will focus on Pyongyang’s potential participation in the Winter Olympics in South Korea next month – an event that Seoul hopes will contribute to peace in a region that has been wracked with tensions in recent months.

會談將集中討論朝鮮可能參加下月在韓國舉行的冬奧會一事。首爾方面希望，此事將有助於增進地區和平。近幾個月來，該地區一直受到局勢緊張的困擾。

The decision to hold talks comes shortly after the US and South Korea agreed to postpone annual military exercises until after the Olympics.

就在美韓同意將年度軍事演習推遲至冬奧會結束之後不久，朝韓雙方決定舉行會談。

Such drills regularly raises the hackles of the regime in Pyongyang, which believes they are a rehearsal for invasion.

這樣的軍演經常引起平壤政權的憤怒，他們認爲這是入侵前的演練。