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Meeting between North and South Korea

Two Koreas meet to discuss nuclear issue, By Jack Kim and Andrew Quinn, SEOUL/NUSA DUA, Indonesia   Jul 22, 2011 (Reuters) – The nuclear envoys of South and North Korea met on the sidelines of an Asian forum in Bali on Friday, an official in Seoul said, in the first high level contact since tensions spiked on the Korean peninsula last year…..

Wi Sung-lac, South Korea’s nuclear envoy, and Ri Yong-ho, North Korea’s vice foreign minister who handles nuclear diplomacy, were meeting for unofficial talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting.

The South’s Yonhap news agency said they were discussing a wide range of nuclear disarmament issues……

The meeting marks the first high-level contact between the two Koreas since the last round of the six-way nuclear disarmament talks in 2008 and a step forward in the diplomatic effort to resume negotiations…..

North Korea’s two nuclear tests in the past five years rattled the region. They triggered international sanctions against Pyongyang believed to be squeezing its already troubled economy by cutting off a lucrative arms trade….

(Writing by Jeremy Laurence; Editing by Ron Popeski and David Chance)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/us-korea-north-idUSTRE76L10520110722

July 24, 2011 - Posted by | North Korea, politics international, South Korea

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