Government delegates from North and South Korea held a marathon session of preparatory talks today at a “truce village” on their heavily armed border.The talks aimed at setting ground rules for a higher-level discussion on easing animosity and restoring stalled rapprochement projects.The meeting at Panmunjom, where the armistice agreement ending fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War was signed, was the first of its kind on the Korean Peninsula in more than two years.Success will be judged on whether the delegates can pave the way for a meeting between the ministers of each country’s department for cross-border affairs.South Korea has proposed they take place Wednesday in Seoul.
