North Korea to meet for talks with South Korea after high tensions

[Ichingcarpenter]

Source: cnn

In a rare move, in its reporting on diplomatic talks with South Korea, North Korean state TV referred to the South as the "Republic of Korea" and not with the propaganda term the "puppet state." South Korean TV broadcaster YTN re-broadcast the clip of North Korean TV using South Korea's proper name.

[Previous story, published Saturday, 5:29 a.m.]

(CNN) -- On a day of escalating tensions and heated rhetoric on the Korean peninsula, the two sides agreed to meet Saturday at the historic "truce village" inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), South Korean officials said.

The high level talks will include, from the North, Kim Jong Un's deputy, Hwang Byeong Seo and Kim Yang Gon, a veteran of South Korean negotiations since Kim's father, Kim Jong-il ruled the secretive regime. South Korea's Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo and Kim Kwan-jin, the head of National Security, will also attend the meeting.

A South Korean presidential briefing stated that the North had specifically requested that the two officials attended.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/22/asia/koreas-tensions/index.html

[FLPanhandle]

1. Threaten war, have talks, get some food and aid, repeat.

The world needs to stop rewarding North Korea with food and aid everytime. They positively reinforce this behavior.

[wolfie001]

2. Yes!

I was just thinking the great chubby leader needs some wheat delivered.

[murielm99]

3. That seems to be their MO. n/t

[christx30]

4. Agreed.

They have to know that while they can do a lot of damage in a short time, they can't sustain any kind of war, and would be soundly defeated sooner rather than later.
Even China is tired of their crap. I doubt there would be any real support there, other than a few words spoken at the UN.

[roamer65]

5. South Korea should tell them to shove their talks.

Turn up the volume on the loudspeakers. The ROK could take NK within a month and reunite the peninsula.

Bring everything you got ROK, right up to the DMZ and get it over with.

[davidpdx]

6. Congratulations, you are the second person on DU to advocate all out war with North Korea

Considering 23.5 million people live in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, I don't think that's such a good idea. While South Korea would win, most of the Seoul area would be leveled by shelling.