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Koreas fail to reach pact

SEOUL: South Korea on Friday rejected North Korea's demand at high-level military talks that the western sea border dividing the Koreas be redrawn, the lead South Korean delegate said, bringing two days of negotiations to an end without any agreement.

The North had demanded at the talks, which began on Thursday in the truce village of Panmunjom, that the two sides agree to redraw their sea border, a common site of clashes between the Koreas.

The North doesn't recognise the border demarcated by the U.N. after the 1950-53 war. — AP

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