AFP/Getty Images What We Know About North Korea’s Latest High-Level Talks With The South

North Korea and South Korea sent 20 diplomats to the “truce village” on Tuesday, where the two states, technically still at war since 1953, talked about the coming Winter Olympics.

But early indications show that rising nuclear tensions remained the elephant in the room.

“This winter has seen more snowstorms than ever, and rivers and mountains across the country are frozen,” Ri Son Gwon, the chairman of the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, said to open the discussion, according to Reuters.