[Eric in the Ozarks]

Why not ten-way talks ? Add in Australia, the Kiwis, Marshall Islands and Bulgaria.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA-Yonhap) -- North Korea's chief envoy to Cabinet-level inter-Korean talks pressed the South Thursday to call off next month's joint South Korea-U.S. military exercise, called Ulchi Focus Lens (UFL). The North's envoy, Kim Ryong-song, sent his South Korean counterpart, Jeong Se-hyun, a telephone message expressing Pyongyang's opposition to the annual exercise and urged the South Korean government to cancel it."

Be prepared for them to now come up with a series of "BUT, before we all sit down, we want this and this and this." This is the DPRK negotiating tactic and they will try to put us in a corner. One such 'request' will be that we suspend such things as these military exercises. Bet bottom dollar they will now ramp up the conditions.