North, South Agree to Hold Military Talks

North Korea agreed to hold high-level military talks with the South aimed at easing tensions on the world’s most heavily armed frontier. Earlier, the two Koreas had ended their three-day Cabinet-level meetings in the North’s capital, Pyongyang, without agreements on increasing economic exchanges or reducing military tensions along their border.

But in a reversal after the meeting’s closure, the North’s People’s Army agreed to hold talks “soon” with the South Korean military, said pool dispatches from South Korean reporters. South Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se Hyun expected the meeting to take place in May.