North and South Korea resume talks
South and North Korea resumed discussions today on economic issues at talks that had been disrupted by a dispute over Pyongyang’s suspected development of nuclear weapons.
The two Koreas opened the talks in Pyongyang on Tuesday, but the talks stalled after the North threatened the South with an “unspeakable disaster”.
North Korea was upset by a US-South Korean summit in Washington last week, during which US president George Bush and South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun agreed to consider “further steps” against Pyongyang if it escalated tension over its nuclear ambitions.
