North and South Korea have agreed to hold security talks for the first time since a conservative South Korean government took office in February.
The talks are scheduled for Thursday in the demilitarized zone between the two states, which are still technically at war. The recent shooting in the north of a South Korean tourist, and the potential collapse of a nuclear disarmament deal, have aggravated tensions on the Korean peninsula. Top US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill is in Pyongyang Size matters for hill reclassified as mountain ...
Rice to meet North Korean FM at six-party talks ... to save the disarmament deal. Hill's visit comes just days after the North threatened to restart plutonium reprocessing, because of what it calls Washington's failure to remove it from a terrorism blacklist.
(Deutsche Welle)
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