Rival Koreas hold first talks in two years

June 09, 2013 16:17

North and South Korea held their first official talks for more than two years today, seeking to set up a high-level meeting in Seoul after months of tensions and threats of nuclear war.

The working-level discussions -- weighed down, as always, by decades of mutual distrust -- were held in the border truce village of Panmunjom where the armistice ending the 1950-53 Koran War was signed.

"The overall atmosphere was... calm and the discussion proceeded with no major debate," the South's Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-Seok said after the morning session between the two, three-person delegations.

In the afternoon, the two heads of delegation held further rounds of discussions. The talks were aimed at agreeing a framework for what would be the rivals' first ministerial-level meeting since 2007 -- tentatively scheduled to be held in Seoul on Wednesday.

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