For the past few years, there has been an almost ceaseless drumbeat of insults, threats and counter-threats on the Korean Peninsula. From balloons to drones to loudspeakers to landmines to nuclear and missile tests – not to mention insults hurled against President Park Geun-hye and President Obama that are unrepeatable in polite society – there has been a slow but steady escalation of tension.

Seemingly having grown tired of the unpleasantness of it all, every side seems to be motioning for peace these days.