Talks held to defuse Korean tensions
High-level military officials from North Korea and the US-led UN Command held urgent talks at the border today amid heightened tensions in the region and concerns that the North intends to test-fire a long-range missile.
The talks at the village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarised Zone dividing North and South Korea – the first meetings between general-level military officials since 2002 – were hastily arranged after the North proposed them last week, UN command spokesman Kim Yong-kyu said.
