SKorea offers new date and agenda of talks in Panmunjom.

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SEOUL, September 20 (Itar-Tass) - The South Korean Defence Ministry
has offered North Korea to put off to September 30 the next round of
working negotiations on military issues in the border settlement of
Panmunjom in the Demilitarised Zone. A spokesman for the Defence Ministry
said Seoul had made the offer in a telephone conversation with the North
Korean side.
The Defence Ministry also made it clear that it expected from
Pyongyang admission of its guilt in the sinking of the South Korean
Cheonan corvette. It offered to concentrate at the upcoming negotiations
on ways to reduce tensions in the area of the so-called Northern Limit
Zone, the maritime demarcation line in the Yellow Sea.
The line was drawn by the end of the Korean War of 1950-1953 by the
command of the U.N. troops where Americans occupied the key posts at the
time. North Korea has never recognized that maritime border and insists
that it must be shifted to the south. It is there that armed clashes
between patrol boats of the two Koreas with the loss of lives and hardware
took place in 1999, 2002 and 2009.
Earlier, Pyongyang offered to hold these talks on September 24 and
discuss South Korean plans to launch balloons towards North Korea with
leaflets blaming Pyongyang for the sinking of the Cheonan, as well as
reconsider the sea border in the Yellow Sea (the Northern Limit Line).
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