A mountain of mushrooms for 200 tonnes of tangerines: North and South Korea swap gifts of food in latest goodwill gesture

South Korea has sent 200 tonnes of tangerines to the North in return for mushrooms Pyongyang gave earlier, Seoul said on Monday, in the latest reconciliatory gesture between the neighbours.
Seoul is pushing ahead with a rapprochement with the nuclear-armed North while its security ally the US insists pressure on Pyongyang should be maintained until it denuclearises.
The tangerines – a rarity in the North – were being airlifted to Pyongyang from the southern island of Jeju, where…