Thursday, January 20, 2011

South Korea Agrees To Defense Talks With North Korea

South Korean military forces. © REUTERS/ Kim Jae-Hwan

South Korea Agrees To North Military Talks -- Yahoo News/Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea agreed on Thursday to hold high-level military talks with rival North Korea, marking a major breakthrough in a crisis on the Korean peninsula and heightening the prospect of renewed aid-for-disarmament talks.

A defense ministry spokesman in Seoul said it had not been decided whether the inter-Korean talks would be held at the ministerial level, as suggested by Pyongyang in a dispatch to the South Korean capital.

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More News On North And South Korea Agreeing To Military Talks

SKorea accepts NKorean proposal for defense talks -- Yahoo News/AP
Korea breakthrough as Seoul agrees to talks with North -- Yahoo News/Reuters
South Korea Agrees to Low-Level Talks With North -- New York Times
South Korea to hold high-level talks with the North -- L.A. Times
South, North Korea Agree to Defense Talks -- Wall street Journal
S Korea accepts North talks offer -- Al Jazeera
Negotiations under way for North, South Korea talks -- CNN
South Korea accepts North Korea's proposal for talks -- Washington Post
South Korea Agrees to High-Level Military Talks with North -- Voice of America
S Korea accepts DPRK's proposal for military talks -- Xinhuanet
South Korea accepts North's proposal on top military talks (Update 1) -- RIA Novosti
Seoul accepts NK military talks proposal -- Korea Times

My Comment: I would be very surprised if anything comes out of these talks.

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