ALJAZEERA South Korea has accepted North Korea’s rare offer of talks, proposing the two sides meet next Tuesday. With little time to spare, North and South Korea are preparing to hash out Kim Jong Un’s offer to send a delegation to next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Skeptics are calling the offer, floated by Kim during his annual televised New Year’s address, a cynical tactic to drive a wedge between Washington and Seoul, while optimists see it as a sign of hope that Kim has decided to dial back his defiance and come in from the cold. The answer probably lies somewhere in between. But why, after a year marked by the test of his country’s most powerful nuclear bomb to date and a record number of missile launches, is Kim starting off 2018 by proposing talks across the Demilitarised Zone? READ MORE: North Korea agrees to talks with South Korea on Tuesday South Korea offers Winter Olympic talks to North Korea Kim Jong Un exploits weak links in US-South Korea alliance Donald Trump says his nuclear button is much bigger and more powerful than Kim Jong Un’s WHAT’S ON THE TABLE Kim stressed in his speech that 2018 will be…