U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, local media reported, kicking-off a three-day visit in which he will likely seek to restart working-level negotiations with the DPRK following weeks of stalemate and mounting tensions.

Biegun’s arrival in South Korea overlaps, notably, with the final day of joint ROK-U.S. drills on the peninsula, exercises which have provoked rage and indignation from Pyongyang.

It also follows six missile tests by the DPRK in the last four weeks, most recently on Friday, and hints at an increasing return to brinksmanshipon the part