North Korea delays talks with U.S. on Cheonan warship sinking
10:33, 13 July 2010
MOSCOW. July 13. KAZINFORM Pyongyang has delayed indefinitely talks with the U.S military to discuss South Korea's Cheonan warship sinking blamed on the North, Yonhap said on Tuesday; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
On Friday it was announced that the talks with the U.S.-led United Nations Command (UNC), a command structure for the multinational military forces supporting South Korea, will be held on Tuesday morning.
A few hours before the talks were to take place, the North's military "requested a delay in the planned colonel-level meetings with United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission representatives at Panmunjom for administrative reasons," the agency cited a UNC statement.
A new date for the meeting is yet to be set; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version.