South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik shook hands and exchanged greetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ahead of China’s large-scale military parade on Wednesday, according to Woo’s office.

The brief interaction took place despite the DPRK’s hardline policy describing the South as an “enemy state” and its rejection of the Lee Jae-myung administration’s recent diplomatic overtures to improve inter-Korean ties.

“He briefly exchanged greetings with Chairman Kim Jong Un before attending the military parade,” an aide to Woo told NK News.“Although they both stood on the viewing platform at Tiananmen Square, they watched the parade from