Crucial talks on peninsula

First contact between DPRK, ROK envoys since 2008

NUSA DUA, Indonesia - The nuclear envoys of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (ROK) held cordial talks in Indonesia on Friday and said they would work to resume the stalled Six-Party Talks for nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula.

The meeting, which lasted about two hours, was the first high-level contact between the two sides since the last round of the talks in 2008 and a step forward in the diplomatic effort to resume negotiations.