N Korea urged to show sincerity in talks

June 12th, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The two Koreas had agreed to hold their first high-level talks in six years in Seoul on Wednesday and Thursday, but they failed to reach agreement on the composition of their delegations.

South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won said Seoul government would no longer make “infinite concessions” to Pyongyang.

“In the past, we have made infinite concessions to the North, but the time has come to hold talks where both sides are represented by officials of the same level,” Chung said on Wednesday.

The South’s Unification Ministry has not given any reason for the failure to hold the talks, and it is not clear whether they have been postponed or cancelled.

The agreement for the two-day talks came after almost 18 hours of talks between the government delegates from the two sides in the village of Panmunjom – the ‘truce village’ on the border.

The scheduled talks were an opportunity to improve relations after months of tensions that included threats from Pyongyang and warnings from Seoul.

They were expected to discuss the resumption of two suspended commercial projects, including the Kaesong joint industrial complex. The North shut down the complex in April as military tensions on the Korean peninsula intensified.

Pyongyang says warmongering efforts by Washington and Seoul prompted it to make the decision.

Kaesong is located on the North Korean side of the fortified border and houses the operations of over 120 South Korean companies, employing both South and North Korean workers.

The Korean Peninsula has been locked in a cycle of military rhetoric over the past few months.

The rhetoric escalated when the United States and South Korea held joint military exercises in April, with the participation of US nuclear-capable B-52 and B-2 stealth bombers. North Korea censured the drills and warned Washington and Seoul against a “preemptive attack,” which could develop into an “all-out war.”

On June 1, South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin and US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said Seoul and Washington would maintain a strong alliance in the face of what they described as potential threats from North Korea.

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