ROK, China defence chiefs to meet in Beijing

Defence ministers from a Republic of Korea (ROK) as well as China will reason talks in Beijing in Feb amid flourishing informal tragedy sparked by a Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s chief programmes as well as hostile acts, ROK's counterclaim ministry pronounced upon Sunday.

"South Korea's Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin as well as his Chinese reflection Liang Guanglie plan to encounter in Beijing in February. Details of a assembly bulletin have not been discussed yet," a spokesperson for South Korea's ministry said.

Tensions have risen to their highest in decades upon a divided Korean peninsula after a DPRK bombarded a ROK island final month, as well as revealed major advances in its chief programme.

ROK President Lee Myung-bak in Nov allocated Kim as new counterclaim minister after Kim's prototype quiescent after criticism of what was viewed as a diseased reply to aggression from a DPRK, together with a submarine conflict in March as well as a shelling of Yeonpyeong island final month.

DPRK upon Thursday in jeopardy a chief "sacred war" as well as ROK vowed a "merciless counterattack" opposite any fresh provocations as both sides sensory their rhetoric after troops exercises in a ROK.

Pyongyang has offering to re-admit UN inspectors concerned about its chief weapons programme, prompting speculation that six-party talks together with a North might resume, as well as a worst of a most recent predicament might be over.


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