Two Koreas 'hold high-level military talks'

Two Koreas 'hold high-level military talks'

SEOUL: -- Senior military officials from the two Koreas are holding talks for the first time in seven years, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.

The news agency, citing an unnamed source, said the talks began at 10:00 (01:00GMT) at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarised Zone.

In recent weeks the two Koreas have exchange limited gun fire across both their land and sea borders.

South Korean ministry officials have not formally confirmed the talks.

Yonhap, citing its parliamentary source, said it was because the North did not want the talks made public.

But an opposition lawmaker gave the same information to a party meeting, a statement from his party said.

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-- BBC 2014-10-15