After the long standing war threat, troop mobilization and the involvement of US navy seventh fleet, now the tensions in the Korean peninsula seems to have cooled down a bit as North Korea for the first time talked about peace without showing any warlike hostility towards Seoul.

North Korea said any dialogue with Washington or Seoul could take place only after the removal of sanctions imposed on it for its nuclear-weapons program and the end of military drills in the South.

"If the U.S. and the South Korean puppets…genuinely want dialogue and negotiation, they should take these steps," the North's highest decision-making body, the National Defense Commission, said in a statement. It's worth mentioning that earlier Pyongyang rejected a peace proposal initiated by US Secretary of State John Kerry .

(AW-Jyotishman)