According to newly-found evidence, back in the late 1970s, then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter was looking to hold trilateral talks with South and North Korea to ease tensions.
South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said it secured 40-year-old confidential documents which show that in 1979 President Carter was communicating with the president of Indonesia,... who had ties with both South and North Korea,... to arrange three-way talks in Jakarta.
The North, however, was not enthusiastic about the plan and the talks never happened.