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South Korea, DPRK agree to resume military talks
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-02-04 09:09
South Korea and the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed
Friday to reopen the general-level military talks sometime between late February
and early March to continue the discussions on reducing tension on the Korean
Peninsula.
The agreement came at the end of the one-day working-level meeting between
the two sides at the border village of Panmunjom, an oval-shape area in the
western part of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates the two countries.
South Korean Army Col. Moon Sung-wook, right,
is escorted by an unidentified North Korean officer at the border village
of Panmunjom in North Korea, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006.
[AP] | The third round of inter-Korean
general-grade talks will last for two days at Tongilgak, a pavilion on the
northern side of the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korean Yonhap News Agency
reported.
The high-level inter-Korean military talks have been suspended since July
2004.
In the previous two rounds of the general-level talks held in 2004, the two
sides agreed on a set of measures of reducing tension on the peninsula, such as
dismantling of propaganda facilities along the 248-kilometer-long inter-Korean
land border and establishing hotlines between the navies.
In June 2005, the two sides agreed to resume the high-level military talks at
the DPRK's highest mountain Paekdu (Changbai mountain), but failed to implement
the agreement amid the international standoff over the nuclear issue on the
Korean peninsula.
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