No agreement as North and South Korea meet for first military talks in three years
The first military talks between North and South Korea in more than three years ended with no agreement, with the rivals failing to see eye-to-eye on how to ease animosity following two shooting incidents last week.
The first military talks between North and South Korea in more than three years ended with no agreement yesterday, with the rivals failing to see eye-to-eye on how to ease animosity following two shooting incidents last week.
The two countries traded gunfire on Friday after South Korean activists floated balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border. Earlier last week, their navies exchanged warning shots along the nations' disputed sea boundary. There were no reports of casualties from either incident, but they served as a reminder of how tensions are running high.
Yesterday, after a proposal by the North, military generals from the two Koreas met at a border village in the countries' first military talks since February 2011.
North Korea repeated its demands that South Korea ban activists from dropping leaflets and media outlets from publishing articles critical of the North, South Korea's Defence Ministry said.
South Korean delegates responded that they could not do so because South Korea was a liberal democracy.
