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07-11-2006, 07:46 AM
South Korea Tells North Missile Tests Destabilize Region
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean envoy told his North Korean counterpart Tuesday that Pyongyang was making the region unstable and hurting North-South relations nearly a week after the North test-fired missiles and sparked a global uproar.
"The recently created circumstance is making the situation in the region unstable and is also affecting the South-North relations," the South's chief envoy, Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok, said in a speech at a dinner with the North's delegation at the opening of four days of ministerial talks.
"The 19th round of Cabinet-level talks are being held under this difficult and grave situation," Lee said in the southern city of Busan.
North Korea's missile tests stirred up more discord among its Northeast Asian neighbors, with South Korea and Japan jousting over Tokyo's suggestions of pre-emptive strikes against the North.
Japan and China, meanwhile, were advocating different strategies for how the United Nations should respond to last week's launches.
The bickering and divisions were likely to please the North, which frequently tries to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies in the campaign to defuse Pyongyang's nuclear threat........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202897,00.html
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean envoy told his North Korean counterpart Tuesday that Pyongyang was making the region unstable and hurting North-South relations nearly a week after the North test-fired missiles and sparked a global uproar.
"The recently created circumstance is making the situation in the region unstable and is also affecting the South-North relations," the South's chief envoy, Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok, said in a speech at a dinner with the North's delegation at the opening of four days of ministerial talks.
"The 19th round of Cabinet-level talks are being held under this difficult and grave situation," Lee said in the southern city of Busan.
North Korea's missile tests stirred up more discord among its Northeast Asian neighbors, with South Korea and Japan jousting over Tokyo's suggestions of pre-emptive strikes against the North.
Japan and China, meanwhile, were advocating different strategies for how the United Nations should respond to last week's launches.
The bickering and divisions were likely to please the North, which frequently tries to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies in the campaign to defuse Pyongyang's nuclear threat........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202897,00.html