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Article: USA: U.N., NORTH KOREA HOLD RARE TALKS.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 4, 2009
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According to DOD: Officials from the North Korean army and the United Nations Command held their first high-level talks in nearly seven years today inside the Demilitarized Zone. North Korea requested the meeting to discuss measures to reduce tension on the Korean peninsula, according to a statement released today by the U.S.-led United Nations Command there. The 32-minute meeting took place in Gyeonggi province's Panmunjom village. "The United Nations Command sees the North Korean request for these general-officer-level talks to start again as positive," UNC officials said in the statement. "These talks can be useful in building trust and preventing misunderstanding ...