Koreas seek peace treaty
North and South Korea agreed today to press their superpower allies for a peace treaty to end the world’s oldest and bloodiest cold war conflict, as the leaders of the divided peninsula wrapped up only their second summit in more than 50 years.
Kim Jong-il and his southern counterpart, Roh Moo-hyun, said they would urge China and the United States to negotiate a formal end to the 1950-53 Korean war.
That conflict, which cost 4 million lives, was merely halted by an armistice that has left the nation divided, militarised and tense ever since.
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