PMs of two Koreas hold first talks for 15 years

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007

SEOUL (AFP) — The prime ministers of North and South Korea held talks Wednesday for the first time in 15 years and promised to implement a sweeping reconciliation pact signed by their leaders last month.

The North's Kim Yong-Il and his counterpart Han Duck-Soo are holding a three-day meeting on ways to implement the October 4 summit declaration by President Roh Moo-Hyun and the North's leader Kim Jong-Il.

The leaders had "made epoch-making agreements for peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula so we should see very good results at the meeting," Han told Kim.

"We must make detailed and proper agreements in this round of talks and carry them out."

Kim, whose brief includes reviving the North's crumbling command economy, agreed. "We should work...