Mount Kumgang

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Mount Kumgang

The move to renew diplomatic contacts between the two Koreas continues after the talks of the American representative with the North Korean foreign minister on Thursday with a meeting proposed by the South to discuss the threat made by the northern republic to strip a southern company of its assets.
In a letter addressed to the South Korean minister of reunification, the governmental body in Seoul that deals with the problem of bringing the two Koreas back together, the Communist regime agreed to the meeting as long as the south brought business people along.
The letter says that if the South does not bring businessmen to the negotiation than the talks are useless, and the action against the company’s assets in Kumgang region will be taken.
North and South manifest an openness towards tourism cooperation, to which effect it revised the law that was overseeing tourism at mount Kumgang resort.

North Korean-South Korean Relations

It would appear that by this move toward reviving tourist interest toward this resort the North is trying to amount some cash as the country’s economy has been devastated by decades of instability and failure to produce the welfare for the people of the country.
North Korea has acted very violently last year toward its southern counterpart, sinking a ship and shelling an island, but now the situation seems distinct, as it entered negotiations with the United States, pressing for the closing of a peace treaty and giving hopes to south that the program aid-for-denuclearization could be resumed.
The United States representative for North Korea met on Thursday with the North Korean foreign minister in an “exploratory talk” appreciated by both parties as a step forward toward the reopening of a new round of six-nation format talks.
North Korea wants the talks to change the paradigm, in the sense that it intends to place the signing of the peace treaty with the United States before discussing denuclearization.
Pyongyang argues that as long as between the United States and North Korea persists a state of war, since the war in 1950s was ended on the grounds of an armistice, not a peace treaty, it is difficult to speak of denuclearization.

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