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 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea urged North Korea to help end their Cold War as the two sides glossed over an international nuclear dispute Wednesday to celebrate a landmark 2000 summit that warmed ties but failed to bring them much closer to reunification.
Since North Korea's Kim Jong Il met then-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung — the only such talks since the Korean War ended in a 1953 cease-fire — Seoul and Pyongyang have boosted trade, staged reunions of 10,000 separated family members, and launched the construction of railways and roads connecting the Koreas.
But five years on, North Korea menacingly boasts that it has nuclear bombs, the border remains one of the world's most heavily armed, and Kim Jong Il has failed to visit Seoul as promised.
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