South Korea`s Major General Kim Do-gyun (second from right) shakes hands with North Korea`s Lieutenant General An Ik-san (second from left) at the northern side of Panmunjeom in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday. (Yonhap)
Yonhap News Agency: Koreas holding military talks to discuss easing tensions
PANMUNJEOM -- South and North Korea are holding their first high-level military talks in more than 10 years Thursday to discuss ways to ease cross-border tensions.
The meeting started at 10 a.m. on the northern side of the truce village of Panmunjom, according to Seoul's defense ministry.
These were the first such talks since the two sides met in December 2007.
South Korea's five-member delegation is led by Major General Kim Do-gyun. The North's delegation is led by Lieutenant General An Ik-san, who is accompanied by four other officials.
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WNU Editor: This is the first time in over a decade that the military leaders of both North and South Korea are meeting for talks, and apparently the first time that a South Korean military officer has crossed the DMZ to enter North Korea. The Western media's focus is on Trump and Kim .... but there is clearly a lot of discussions and conversations occurring right now on the Korean peninsula that is being ignored.
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This is good.
Xi must think NoKo's situation truly desparate to let this go.
Very interested to know background on this.
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