Lee Jae Myung offers chance to end the conflict, which has been frozen since an armistice in 1953.

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Why propose it days before an exercise?

Pyongyang has previously rebuffed Lee's offers of engagement, criticising a deal for the US to build South Korea a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines and denouncing joint drills between the two allies.

In a sign of continued sabre-rattling, North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on Tuesday - the 11th suspected test so far this year - just days before a scheduled US-South Korean joint military exercise.

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