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 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A top South Korean official arrived Tuesday in the North to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the only summit between leaders of the divided peninsula amid tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.
Unification Minister Chung Dong-young was expected to press the North to return to nuclear disarmament talks that have been stalled for nearly a year.
Chung heads a government delegation from Seoul attending the commemoration of the June 2000 summit between North Korea's Kim Jong Il and then-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung. He is to meet Thursday with Kim Yong Nam, the North's ceremonial head of state. But Chung said there was no decision yet about a possible meeting during his four-day visit with Kim Jong Il.
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