DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: North Korea Proposes High-Level Military Talks With South Korea....NSI News Source Info # 1461
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources By Song Sang-ho, The Korea Herald(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - January 20, 2011: North Korea proposed holding high-level military talks with South Korea on Thursday, a day after the U.S. and China called on the communist state to end provocations.
The proposal is the latest in a series of recent overtures from the North for dialogue with its southern neighbor against which it made two deadly attacks last year.
North Korea said it will speak about its position on the sinking of the South Korean naval ship Cheonan in March and the artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island in November, and proposed discussions on how to ease the military tension across the Korean peninsula.
“Under the name of Kim Yong-chun, minister of the People’s Armed Forces, North Korea sent a faxed message at around 11:46 a.m., proposing high-level military talks to address pending bilateral military issues,” said Chang Gwang-il, deputy minister for policy at the Ministry of National Defense.
“For the high-level talks, the North also proposed holding preliminary working-level talks. The ministry and other relevant ministries are carefully coordinating measures to respond to the proposal.”
Chang also added that the government is positively considering holding the working-level talks during which the two sides will discuss the agenda, venue and date for the talks.
The two Koreas held their first defense-minister talks on the South Korean resort island of Jeju in September 2000. The second was held in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in November 2007.
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