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N. Korea chief delegate seeks ‘precious’ results from talks
SEOUL, Jan 9, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – The leader of North Korea’s delegation to
the first official talks between Pyongyang and Seoul for more than two years
hoped for “precious” results from the discussions, he said as the meeting
began Tuesday.
“Let’s present the people with a precious new year’s gift,” Ri Son-Gwon
told South Korean unification minister Cho Myoung-Gyon in Panmunjom, the
truce village in the Demilitarised Zone that divides the peninsula.
BSS/AFP/ARS/0830 hrs