- Title: USA: NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA AGREE TO CONTINUE PEACE TALKS.
- Date: 6th August 1997
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 6, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV: EXTERIOR OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. 0.08 2. SV: NORTH KOREAN VICE FOREIGN MINISTER KIM GYE GWAN, HEAD OF NORTH KOREAN DELEGATION AT THE TALKS, WALKING IN THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. 0.12 3. MV: SONG YOUNG SHIK, DEPUTY MINISTER FOR POLITICAL AFFAIR
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- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
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- Country: USA
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- Story Text: INTRO: Famine-stricken North Korea and the United States, South Korea, and China have agreed to continue their talks aimed at clearing the way for negotiations on a permanent peace agreement on the divided Korean peninsula.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- The agreement to keep talking was reached on Wednesday (August 6). The meetings, which began on Tuesday at Columbia University in New York, have a limited purpose - to set a date, time, place, and agenda for the opening of formal negotiations, probably in September.
The ultimate goal was to replace the fraying armistice from the 1950-1953 Korean War with a more durable agreement, possibly in the form of a treaty. China was communist North Korea's ally in the conflict and the United States supported the capitalist South.
All four nations are parties to the armistice, which ended fighting but did not technically end the war on the Korean peninsula, the last flashpoint of the Cold War.
Chen Jian, assistant foreign minister of China and the leader of Beijing's delegation at the talks, called the discussions "frank and productive and friendly." The talks were scheduled to resume at 1800gmt on Thursday (August 7).
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