North Korea vows to freeze nuclear weapons tests

North Korea has agreed to freeze its ongoing nuclear weapons tests, if its security can be guaranteed, South Korea's top security adviser said following his trip to the communist state.
In a press briefing on Tuesday, Chung Eui-yong also announced that North Korea's Kim Jong-un and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in will hold a landmark summit in April.
The summit of the two leaders will be held at the joint security area of Panmunjom, according to the official South Korean news agency, Yonhap.
The announcement followed high-level talks in Pyongyang between Chung and top North Korean leaders, including Kim Jong-un.
"The North side clearly affirmed its commitment to the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and said it would have no reason to possess nuclear weapons should the safety of its regime be guaranteed and military threats against North Korea removed," he said.
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My Response
Audience: 
Th audience of this article is clearly very wide and broad seeing as North Korea has been a hot topic in the news recently. This article provides a little reassurance. But I especially think that this article is directed towards the people who live in Seoul as they are so close to the dangerous situation. This article provides a little bit of breathing space.
Reader Bias:
Personally I have a couple of Korean friends who I have had discussions about on the past on the stability of North Korea and the hope for a one day unified Korea. For those reasons I am very biased in support of this story as I really do believe that Korea will one day be unified and I hope that this is the very first step toward that end goal.
Overall Bias:
The article is biased against North Korea, biased against Kim Jong Un, biased against nuclear war, biased in support of these new resolutions, and biased in support of a unified Korea.
Opinion:
Articles like these make me very hopeful as I really want their to one day be a single unified Korea. I still understand that I have very large problems with the North Korean government, but these changes are monumental and make the risk of Nuclear war seem further and further away. The North Korean government has typically been unreasonable but these changes give me hope for a brighter future. Even though I may have a hint of skepticism about these plans I am still hopeful that we are moving in the right direction.

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