Koreas agree to meet, paving way for aid
Reuters, Seoul
North and South Korea agreed yesterday to restart high-level talks, paving the way for food aid to resume after this week's breakthrough energy-for-disarmament deal with Pyongyang. Officials from the two Koreas, which are technically still at war, agreed to hold ministerial talks in Pyongyang on February 27. Talks were frozen and the South suspended food and fertilizer aid to its impoverished neighbour in the wake of Pyongyang's defiant missile and nuclear tests last year. The rapprochement follows Tuesday's six-country agreement in Beijing on dismantling the communist state's nuclear arms programme, which could also bring a thaw between old foes Washington and Pyongyang. A South Korean news report said nuclear negotiators Kim Kye-gwan of North Korea and the US State Department's Christopher Hill would visit each other's capital soon.
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