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N Korea makes fresh talks offer
[Al Jazeera] North Korea has reiterated a proposal for unconditional talks with South Korea, in an apparent bid to ease tensions on the peninsula.The North's latest offer comes days after South Korea dismissed earlier calls for negotiation from the country. "We do not want to see the present South Korean authorities pass the five-year term of their office idly without North-South dialogue," the North's Committee for Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement. "There is neither conditionality in the North's proposal for dialogue nor need to cast any doubt about its real intention." The statement was released to the country's official Korean Central News Agency. Chun Hae-Sung, a South Korean unification ministry official, said South Korea will review the latest offer but that the North has not sent an official request for talks. The South had earlier this week dismissed calls for talks by the North, saying the country should show that it has changed through actions, rather than words. Lee Jong-Joo, a South Korean unification ministry front man, said this fresh offer for talks was more concrete than the previous one. Posted by: Fred 2011-01-09 |
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