Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Army says North Korea will not meet with the South

The North Korean Army said today that he will not engage in a dialogue with South Korea, after yesterday's results completed without a military meeting two days work to reduce tension in the area. In a statement quoted by the Yonhap agency, North Korean military delegation accused South Korea of not contributing to the improvement of inter-Korean relations and said the South Korean Army is only interested in maintaining the high level of tension on the peninsula.

Yesterday, delegations from both Koreas, led by colonels, failed in the attempt to organize a high-level military meeting to cut the high tension in the area after the bombing of North Korean artillery shells in November with the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. The incident in the border area of the Yellow Sea (West Sea), killing two civilians and two soldiers, South Koreans and deteriorated the already fragile relations between the two Koreas.

The military meeting that ended yesterday was considered the first opportunity to return to Seoul and Pyongyang through dialogue. South Korea demanded in the talks that the North Korean regime is accountable for the attack on Yeonpyeong and recognize their participation in the collapse in March of one of its warships, which killed 46 sailors.

According to South Korea said yesterday the head of the negotiations, Colonel Moon Sang-Gyun, North Korean partners refused to meet them and left the negotiating table.

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