Positive Step By North Toward Talks Reported
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il responded “affirmatively” to a South Korean offer to reopen talks with the United States, Indonesia’s president said today after a diplomatic trip to the Communist nation.
This is the first positive response from North Korea since the Bush administration proposed restarting talks to reunite the divided Korean peninsula.
“I delivered a message from [South Korean] President Kim Dae Jung, to which leader Kim Jong Il responded affirmatively,” said Indonesia’s Megawati Sukarnoputri, who flew to Seoul, the South’s capital, after a three-day visit to the North.
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