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Rival Koreas hold first talks in two years
North and South Korea held their first official talks for more than two years Sunday,seeking to set up a high-level meeting
Written by Press Trust Of India
Seoul | June 10, 2013 01:04 AM IST
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North and South Korea held their first official talks for more than two years Sunday,seeking to set up a high-level meeting in Seoul after months of tensions and threats of nuclear war.
The working-level discussions weighed down,as always,by decades of mutual distrust were held in the border truce village of Panmunjom where the armistice ending the 1950-53 Koran War was signed.
The overall atmosphere was8230; calm and the discussion proceeded with no major debate, the Souths Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-Seok said after the morning session between the two,three-person delegations.
In the afternoon,the two heads of delegation held further rounds of discussions. The talks were aimed at agreeing a framework for what would be the rivals first ministerial-level meeting since 2007 tentatively scheduled to be held in Seoul on Wednesday. The agenda there will focus on restoring suspended commercial links,including the Kaesong joint industrial complex that the North effectively shut down in April as tensions between the historic rivals peaked.
Well get a better sense of where things really stand on Wednesday, said Yang Moo-Jin,a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.
Sundays talks came about after an unexpected reversal on Thursday from North Korea,which suddenly dropped its belligerent and proposed opening a dialogue.
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