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| Koreas Agree on Reunions |
| 2002-08-14 |
| North and South Korea agreed on Wednesday to hold economic talks and briefly reunite families but failed to bridge the biggest gap — when to hold military talks to help build a railway across the world's most fortified border. The United States and Japan, preparing for their own talks with Pyongyang soon, will closely scrutinize the outcome of the three-day talks at a hotel in Seoul for clues about Pyongyang's latest diplomatic outreach and tentative economic reforms. "North Korea seems to want to improve relations with South Korea, Japan and the United States to tide over economic difficulties," South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Tae-sik told foreign reporters. "It looks like they realized they can't get any financial aid from the international society as long as military tension persists on the Korean peninsula." They tried not to notice when that changed... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |