South Korea urges North Korea to respond to proposal for military talks

Record ID: 903586

  • Title: South Korea urges North Korea to respond to proposal for military talks
  • Date: 21st July 2017
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (JULY 21, 2017) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** SOUTH KOREAN DEFENCE MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, MOON SANG-GYUN, WALKING INTO NEWS BRIEFING ROOM (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN DEFENCE MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, MOON SANG-GYUN, SAYING: JOURNALISTS AT NEWS BRIEFING "The Defence Ministry urges again North Korea to respond to our proposal immediately." (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN DEFENCE MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, MOON SANG-GYUN, SAYING: "North Korea hasn't replied until now, so it is hard to open a dialogue today. It is an urgently-needed task for peace and stability on the Korean peninsula to restore dialogue in the military area and to ease military tensions between the South and the North."
  • Embargoed: 4th August 2017 03:51
  • Keywords: South Korea Defence Ministry North Korea military talks
  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • City: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016QNTOHX
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: South Korea said on Friday (July 21) restoring dialogue with North Korea was urgently needed to ease military tension and called on Pyongyang to respond to its proposal for talks easing tensions between the two Koreas.
    The South's Defence Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun told a briefing the military talks it proposed to be held on Friday were practically impossible as the North has not responded.
    The North has remained silent on Seoul's proposal made on Monday (July 17) for talks to be held to discuss ways to avoid hostilities near the heavily armed border.
    The talks proposal came after the North claimed to have conducted the first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) earlier this month, and said it had mastered the technologies to mount a nuclear warhead on the missile.
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