Rival Koreas Meet for Talks to Ease Tension

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Military representatives from North and South Korea met at one border town Tuesday, aiming to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula. It's been more than four months in the making. Relations between the two states have been strained, especially since last September, when North Korea attacked a South Korean island, leaving three dead.

North and South Korean military officers met at border of the two countries on Tuesday for the first cross-border talks in over four months. It's part of a bid to defuse tensions on the divided peninsula.

The meeting was not open to media, but Seoul's defense ministry provided video of the meeting and a North Korean delegation crossing the border at the truce village of Panmunjom.

The inter-Korean dialogue has also raised the chances of aid-for-disarmament negotiations.

The colonel-level talks are aimed at setting the time and agenda for more senior dialogue, possibly between their defense ministers. Officials say it may take several rounds of working-level talks to prepare for the senior meeting.

The working-level meeting is the first dialogue between the rivals since last September, as tension peaked on the peninsula when the North bombarded a South Korean island in disputed waters off the west coast.

Last March, South Korea accused the North of torpedoing one of its navy ships, killing 46 sailors.

Tensions simmered through December as both countries exchanged war-like rhetoric, worrying markets in the region.

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[juanmarquez7867]

NORTHs soldier look like MALNURISHED compared to SOUTH KOREAN...

[robotjj0009]

@BuffaloTPU Kim Jong Un will cause the war. I will bet.

[nesmahno]

@MrAmokz You though understand about what speak - what independent state if it is region of Russia. You can present Chicago the separate state? You speak that your country isn't at war anywhere since 1945? You then weren't at war, and traded with the at war countries and towards the end of war have dumped a nuclear bomb to Japan. And after 1945 your invaders were in Vietnam, Korea, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq. Your soldiers killed old men, forced children and women, is worse than fascists.

[MrAmokz]

@nesmahno

So since Chechnya is part of Russia, Russia has right to wage war that has killed thousands of Russians and Chechen, in order to prevent Chechnya for becoming an independent state? Also, no. My nation has not been fighting any war since 1945.

[BuffaloTPU]

If shit is gonna hit the fan in the next 15 years, this is the place.

[nesmahno]

@MrAmokzYou probably know the story is bad, Chechnya is a territory of the Russian Federation. A city of Grozny, the Cossack village. The war in Chechnya has funded your government to destabilize the situation in Rossii.I Chechens were killing Russian. After that, the troops entered. and your army fights where you can steal the oil. this is fascism

[MrAmokz]

@nesmahno

"And what actions of Russia fascist?"

google for Chechen War.

[nesmahno]

@PKisthebomb2 And what actions of Russia fascist? Also look that America - for oil does destroys another's states

[PKisthebomb2]

@nesmahno Because Russia isn't fascist....??? Is that your point? Make it clear or learn English you dumbass

[TheBank0fspank]

@nesmahno what the shit