Updated at 11:10 a.m. ET. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a dinner to welcome delegates from South Korea on Monday, in a visit Seoul hopes will pave the way for talks between North Korea and the United States. The 10-member delegation includes a top national security adviser and spy chief — marking the first time South Korean officials are reported to have met the North Korean leader since he took power in 2011. The trip is a reciprocation for the visit that North Korean officials, including the leader's younger sister Kim Yo Jong , made to the Winter Olympics last month. The South Korean envoys flew a direct route from Seoul to Pyongyang by government plane. They'll stay for two days. The last South Korean delegation to go to North Korea was more than 10 years ago, in 2007, which helped create conditions for an inter-Korean summit later that year. Following this week's visit, two of the envoys — the head of the National Security Office in South Korea and the intelligence chief
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