Military officials from Seoul and Pyongyang held working-level military talks on Thursday but failed to make significant progress, local media reported.
The talks, which was the first official inter-Korean military contact since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office in late February, was finished within 90 minutes after the two sides met at the truce village of Panmumjom, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said.
According to Yonhap, Col. Pak Rim-su, chief delegate of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for the talks, said at Panmumjom that the DPRK proposed to hold the meeting in a bid to demand South Korea to stop spreading "propaganda leaflets" throughout DPRK.
Following the talks, Pak said the two sides made few progress during the negotiations, claiming the South Korean delegation was "not ready solve problems," Yonhap said.
At the beginning of the talks, the DPRK side suggested to make the talks fully open to the media while the South Korean side rejected.
South Korea's delegation to Thursday's meeting was led by Army Col. Lee Sang-cheol.
(Xinhua News Agency October 2, 2008)
