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North, South Korean foreign ministers meet

The foreign ministers of North and South Korea held an unofficial meeting yesterday on the sidelines of a regional security dialogue in Indonesia, the South's Yonhap news agency reported.

In the first such encounter since 2008, South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan and his North Korean counterpart Pak Ui-Chun chatted on their way to a conference hall at the Asean security forum in Nusa Dua, Yonhap said.

"Before entering a session of the Asean Regional Forum this morning, Minister Kim had a brief talk with Pak," the agency quoted an unnamed South Korean official as saying.

The encounter came a day after the two countries' nuclear envoys held an unexpected, rare meeting and agreed to resume multilateral talks on curbing the North's nuclear programme at the earliest possible date.

Soruce : The Daily Star