Generals from North and South Korea meet to end military stalemate

(SEOUL, South Korea) – Korean rival generals met on Tuesday at their shared border for talks to calm a decades-long military stalemate, Seoul officials said. The meeting comes a few days after North Korea reported the remnants of the US war dead, the latest sign of a flourishing diplomacy following the war threats of last year

. non-nuclear military issues, but no significant announcement is expected from the talks at the border village of Panmunjom. Some experts say that South Korea can not agree on drastic measures to reduce animosity unless the North takes serious measures of nuclear disarmament.

At the April 27 summit, Korean leaders agreed to disarm a jointly controlled area. Prevent accidental clashes along their contested maritime boundary and put an end to all hostile acts. Since then, the Koreas have dismantled their front-line propaganda speakers, re-established a military phone line and held their first general talks since 2007.

Tuesday is the second such meeting since the summit. The generals will probably discuss the suppression of the number of military guards at Panmunjom, the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the area and the withdrawal of some army guard posts from the demilitarized zone, a buffer zone that separates the two countries. . They can also talk about ways to ensure that their fishermen operate peacefully along the Korean border, the site of several bloody naval skirmishes in recent years.

The Ministry of Defense will not discuss any detailed program of the talks.

The meeting comes four days after North Korea fired dozens of US soldiers missing from the Korean War between 1950 and 1953, which leader Kim Jong Un promised at a summit in June with US President Donald Trump. He thanked Kim for "keeping a promise" to return the American remains and said it was a step in the right direction after their summit.

During the Singapore meeting, Kim also committed to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. him with security guarantees. The North suspended its nuclear and missile tests and closed its nuclear test site, and recent satellite photos showed that the country had also begun dismantling key facilities. at its main rocket launch site. But many foreign experts say that this is not enough to prove its seriousness in terms of disarmament, saying the North must first submit a list of nuclear assets to dismantle.

To reward the return of the US war, North Korea as the United States hears on a statement to end the Korean War as a security guarantee of the United States. According to analyst Cho Han Bum of the Korean Institute for National Unification of Seoul, this issue could be discussed on Tuesday.

The Korean War ended with an armistice and not a peace treaty leaving the peninsula in a state of technical warfare. North Korea has long argued that its nuclear weapons aimed to cope with US military threats, saying it wanted to sign a peace treaty with the United States to formally end the war. This could then allow the North to demand the withdrawal of 28,500 US troops deployed in South Korea.