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    July 22, 2011

North, South Korea Hold Direct Nuclear Talks

   VOA News

   North Korea's top nuclear negotiatior Ri Yong Ho talks to media after
   his meeting with his South Korean counterpart Wi Sung-lac in Bali,
   Indonesia, July 22, 2011

AP

   North Korea's top nuclear negotiatior Ri Yong Ho talks to media after
   his meeting with his South Korean counterpart Wi Sung-lac in Bali,
   Indonesia, July 22, 2011

   South Korean officials say nuclear envoys from North and South Korea
   held talks Friday on the sidelines of the ASEAN security conference in
   Bali, Indonesia.
   Diplomats said it was the first meeting between chief nuclear envoys
   from the two countries since six-party nulear talks collapsed in
   December of 2008.
   The South's Yonhap news agency said Wi Sung-lac, South Korea's nuclear
   envoy and the North's Ri Yong Ho discussed a wide range of nuclear
   disarmament issues at the informal meeting.
   Neither side released any details about the talks.
   North Korea's two nuclear tests in the past five years triggered
   international sanctions against Pyongyang.
   South Korea, the U.S., Russia, China and Japan have been pushing for a
   resumption of the six-party talks. All six parties are attending the
   ASEAN conference.

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