“He calls on the parties to redouble efforts to resolve differences through dialogue while refraining from taking any measure that is not conducive to dialogue,” points out a statement issued yesterday evening by the UN spokesperson.
The Secretary-General further took note of the agreement that the discussions will be resumed today, adds the statement .-
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23/8/15
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The inter-Korean talks on settlement of the current crisis between the South and the North have resumed in Panmunjom on Sunday, the YTN television channel reported...
ReplyDeleteFrom South Korea, Kim Kwan-jin, national security adviser to the president; and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo take part in the negotiations. The North is represented by Hwang Pyong So, a political director of the country's army; and Kim Yang Gon, a veteran of negotiations with South Korea.............http://tass.ru/en/world/815930
South Korea's Park Geun-hye asks North for apology amid tensions...
ReplyDeleteSouth Korean President Park Geun-hye has said cross-border propaganda broadcasts will continue until Pyongyang apologises for landmines that injured two South Korean soldiers.
North Korea has threatened to use force to stop the broadcasts, ratcheting up tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
High-level talks to resolve the issue have continued through a second night.
Both country's militaries are on alert after a brief exchange of fire at the border on Thursday.
North Korea denies laying the landmines which maimed the soldiers earlier this month.
The two Koreas remain technically at war, because the 1950-1953 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty...........BBC
North, South Korea resume conflict crisis talks...
ReplyDeleteTop-level North and South Korean negotiators talked through the night with no sign of an agreement on Monday for ending a military standoff that has threatened to boil over into armed conflict.
After a 10-hour marathon the previous night, the talks passed the 19-hour mark in a second session in the border truce village of Panmunjom, where the 1950-53 Korean War ceasefire was signed.
The second round was clouded by South Korean claims that the North was seeking to influence the negotiating process with provocative military movements.
South Korea’s defence ministry said the North had doubled its artillery units at the border and deployed two-thirds of its total submarine fleet—around 50 vessels—outside their bases.
The ministry added it was also closely monitoring the movement of North Korean landing craft, following a Yonhap report that the North has deployed about 10 air-cushioned amphibious landing craft carrying special forces to a naval base about 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of the Northern Limit Line, the maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea recognised by the South............france24.com
24/8/15