N. KOREA TO JOIN TALKS ON ENDING WAR.Byline: Steven Lee This article is about the alpine skier. For other people named Steven or Stephen Lee, see Stephen Lee (disambiguation).Steven Lee (born August 6, 1962 in Falls Creek) is an Australian alpine skier. Myers The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times A day after North Korea expressed regret for sending a submarine into southern waters, the Clinton administration announced that North Korea had agreed for the first time to talk with South Korea and the United States about the possibility of negotiating a formal end to the Korean War Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. At the end of World War II, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel into Soviet (North Korean) and U.S. (South Korean) zones of occupation. . The agreement represented a significant breakthrough in efforts to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, administration officials said Monday. The United States had proposed such a meeting - or briefing, as officials call it - nine months ago, only to see it lost in the tensions that arose after a North Korean submarine full of commandos ran aground a·ground adv. & adj. 1. Onto or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water: a ship that ran aground; a ship aground offshore. 2. on a South Korean beach in September. Twenty-four North Koreans and 13 South Koreans were killed in the ensuing conflict. South Korea had considered the incursion in·cur·sion n. 1. An aggressive entrance into foreign territory; a raid or invasion. 2. The act of entering another's territory or domain. 3. into its waters a virtual act of war. The point of the briefing would be to persuade the North Koreans to join broader talks with South Korea, as well as with China and the United States, in an effort to devise a formal end to the Korean War. |
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