[USFK Forums] Two Koreas agree to resume stalled military talks [AFP]

[C. Y. Lee]

Uploaded by C. Y. Lee on Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Two Koreas agree to resume stalled military talks

Mon Jan 30, 2:21 AM ET

Seoul (AFP) - South and North Korea have agreed to resume stalled military talks this week aimed at easing tensions along the world's last Cold War frontier, military authorities said.

A colonel-level military contact between the countries -- who agreed only a ceasefire, not a peace to end the 1950-53 Korean War -- will be made Friday at the truce village of Panmumjom, the South's defense ministry said.

This will be the first inter-Korean military meeting since the two sides agreed last August to set up a cross-border military hotline.

Economic exchanges between the rivals have greatly increased following an inter-Korean summit in 2000.

But North Korea has balked at holding high-level military talks with South Korea. The Stalinist country has demanded South Korea first stop joint military exercises with the United States.



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