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| N Korea holds business talks with South |
| 2010-01-20 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] North Korea hosts direct negotiations with the South on scaling up their bilateral business cooperation despite clinging onto an unbending position until recently. The Tuesday's talks centered on the revival of the Kaesong Industrial Park -- a joint project in the North, the AFP news agency reported. The business area is directly accessible by workmen and employees commuting from Seoul. It employs 42,000 North Koreans in 117 South Korean firms with wages paid to state bodies and not directly to the workers, according to the report. The dialogue came after the North agreed to the meeting to discuss the results of a joint inspection of the overseas industrial towns, said the South's Yonhap news agency. Pyongyang had earlier warned that it would block any dialogue on peace and security with the South, complaining that Seoul had come up with emergency plans to govern the North should the communist state succumb to a regime collapse, a coup or a popular uprising. Tensions have been on the rise in the Korean peninsula since last April, when Pyongyang quit the disarmament talks following the widespread condemnation of its missile tests. It also ventured a second nuclear test a month later, prompting tougher sanctions from the US and South Korean allies. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Talks. NORK gimme gimme gimme SKOR why Nork Gimme or I'll lay a heavy guilt trip on you. SKOR sigh, whaddya need. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-01-20 22:14 |