North Korea and Syria hold talks

North Korea and Syria today held high-level talks in Pyongyang, the North’s state media reported, amid suspicions that the two countries might be co-operating on a nuclear weapons program.

The talks took place between Choe Tae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, and Saaeed Eleia Dawood, director of the organisational department of Syria’s Baath Arab Socialist Party, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.