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North Korea, UN Command to Meet Again Friday

   VOA News 29 July 2010

   The  U.S.-led  United Nations Command will hold a third round of talks
   with  North  Korean  military  officials about the deadly sinking of a
   South Korean warship that has been blamed on Pyongyang.
   The Command says the colonel-level talks, which will take place Friday
   at  the  border village of Panmunjom, will focus whether the two sides
   should form a joint group to assess the evidence involved in the March
   26 sinking of the Cheonan, which left 46 South Korean sailors dead. Â
   An  international  team  of  investigators says a North Korean torpedo
   downed the Cheonan, a charge denied by Pyongyang.
   At  the last meeting held in Panmunjom last week, the North renewed an
   earlier  request  to  examine  the  wreckage of the Cheonan.  But the
   U.S.-led U.N. Command said it demanded the regime admit responsibility
   for the sinking. Â
   It  also  told  the  North the attack was a violation of the armistice
   that  ended  the  Korean  War in 1953.  The U.N. Command enforces the
   armistice.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP.

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