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Article: Seoul talks short on substance; Exchanges mostly pleasantries.(WORLD)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2005
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Byline: Andrew Salmon, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
SEOUL - Senior North Korean officials exchanged pleasantries with Seoul lawmakers during a visit to the National Assembly yesterday in the latest in a series of unprecedented events that have wowed South Koreans.
As the first such meeting since separate states were established on the peninsula in 1948, the meeting opened the possibility of a new channel for dialogue between the two governments.
When a South Korean lawmaker lamented the lack of any such channel, an official of the North replied, "As a member of the Supreme People's Assembly, I think there is something we must be ashamed of," the ...