North Korea has made a new offer for unconditional talks with the South to ease tensions on the divided peninsula.The North's latest offer comes days after South Korea dismissed earlier calls by Pyongyang for negotiations.Tensions between the two sides escalated after a North Korean artillery barrage on a South Korean-held island near their disputed maritime border killed four South Koreans in November.The attack - the first on a civilian area since the 1950-53 Korean War - occurred in waters not far from where a North Korean torpedo allegedly brought down a South Korean warship eight months earlier.
North Korea in new talks offer