2 Koreas, U.S., China Begin Talks on Peace

North Korea pledged to honor the truce that ended the Korean War 44 years ago, joining China, South Korea and the U.S. in New York to discuss forging a lasting peace on the divided peninsula. Representatives of those countries sat down together at Columbia University to come up with a date, venue and agenda for four-party talks on the Koreas. The session marked the first time China, which backed the North during the Korean War, has participated in the talks. Formal peace talks would aim to establish a new security arrangement, perhaps a peace treaty, to replace the 1953 armistice.