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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Two Koreas hold rare talks after fight over venue Reuters - 2 hours 37 minutes ago By Lee Jae-won ADVERTISEMENT PAJU, South Korea - Political rivals North and South Korea held rare but brief talks on Tuesday that came as global powers tried to prevent reclusive Pyongyang from restarting its nuclear arms plant. There were no immediate details available on the talks about the operations of a joint factory park in the North Korean border city of Kaesong that were delayed for nearly 12 hours due to a dispute over the venue and format, government officials said. Any problems could add to growing frustration among regional powers with North Korea, which defied South Korea, Japan and the United States earlier this month to launch a rocket in what was widely seen as a disguised long-range missile test. The Kaesong park, where South Korean firms use cheap North Korean labour and land to make goods, was once hailed as a model of economic cooperation but has now increasingly been the focus of mounting tension. Seoul has said its top priority in Tuesday's talks was winning the release of a South Korean worker held for nearly a month at Kaesong by the North on suspicion of bad-mouthing North Korea's communist system. North Korea, angered by the decision of President Lee Myung-bak after he took office a year ago to cut a steady flow of aid to his impoverished neighbour, has disrupted work at the factory enclave to put pressure on Seoul to drop its hard line. Despite the North's moves, the number of firms at Kaesong continues to grow due to its low costs and was at 93 at the end of February, employing nearly 39,000 North Korean workers. The talks with a nine-member South Korena economic delegation and North Korean delegates at the factory park lasted less than half an hour, a government official told reporters. SHUT THE PARK? Yun Duk-min, an expert on North Korea at the South's Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, said the unpredictable North was looking to call the shots at the meeting. "South Korea accepted the talks on the slight hope of winning the release of the worker," Yun said. North Korea has all but suspended dialogue with Lee's government and dubbed him a traitor to the Korean nation for tying aid, which has helped prop up the North's wobbly economy, to progress Pyongyang makes in giving up nuclear arms. But the North may now be even more dependent on the money generated by the Kaesong park because the United Nations has called for tightened sanctions on Pyongyang after its defiant rocket launch earlier this month, widely seen as a disguised long-range missile test that violated U.N. resolutions. In response, Pyongyang said it would boycott six-party nuclear disarmament talks, restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium that was being dismantled under a deal reached at those discussions, and threatened war with the South if it joined a U.S. initiative to halt the proliferation of illicit weapons. Some analysts said North Korea may threaten to shut down the Kaesong park if South Korea joins the Proliferation Security Initiative because it could harm the North's arms trade, which is an important source of cash. But few expect Pyongyang to actually shut down the park because it would harm its already tarnished reputation as an international business partner, lead to the loss of a steady stream of income and force the North to find jobs for tens of thousands of its displaced workers. The latest nuclear rumblings from the North have not upset financial players used to the North's threats, but worries may increase if the North restarts its ageing Yongbyon nuclear plant and tries to produce more plutonium for bombs. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Pyongyang this week, the ministry said. Interfax news agency said he will try to persuade the North to return to the sputtering nuclear talks with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States. 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