Troops stay on highest alert during negotiation

The two sides on the Korean Peninsula kept their militaries on their highest alert, as inter-Korean crisis talks entered their third day on Monday.

President of the Republic of Korea Park Geun-hye has demanded that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea apologize as emergency contact between the two sides continues, the presidential office said on Monday.

Park said that Seoul would never yield to Pyongyang and that the latter maximizes provocations and poses threats to security, as seen in the past. She said "a clear apology and recurrence prevention" would be needed to cut off the past repetition of provocations that have created instability.