NKorea abruptly cancels military talks with UN(Update)

Associated Press ^ | 7/13/2010 | Hyung Jin Kim

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

North Korea's military abruptly canceled a rare meeting Tuesday with the American-led U.N. Command that had been arranged to discuss the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang.

Military officers from North Korea and the U.N. Command were to meet at the Korean border village of Panmunjom on Tuesday morning to discuss sinking that killed 46 South Korean sailors. It would have been the first such meeting since the sinking, which sharply raised tension on the divided Korean peninsula.

The North, however, requested a delay in the talks for "administrative reasons," the U.N. Command said in a statement. A new meeting time was not immediately proposed.

An international investigation in May concluded that a North Korean submarine fired a torpedo that sank the 1,200-ton Cheonan near the tense Korean sea border in late March. Pyongyang flatly denies it was responsible and has warned any punishment would trigger war.

The U.N. Command, which oversees an armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953, separately investigated if the sinking violated the truce, though findings have not been disclosed.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

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[AmericanInTokyo]

Why does North Korea even agree to meet at Panmunjom on the 38th paralell in the first place?

The place is MEANINGLESS to them.

For they abrogated their participation in the 1953 UN-supervised Cease Fire and left the arrangement nearly one year ago. Why would they agree to come to Panmunjom to the JSA area which is supervised under the provisions of the Truce!!???

,,,Unless.....They....forgot that they left the Truce Arrangement...because they threaten it and leave it all the time. What absolute idiots who cannot even keep their stories straight due to their constant lies and daily bluffing and brinksmanship. WHEN DID THEY TAKE BACK THEIR THREATS AND WORDS AND REJOIN THE ARMISTACE AGREEMENT??

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

Why does North Korea even agree to meet at Panmunjom on the 38th paralell in the first place?
Window Dressing.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I’ll buy that!