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Tue 07 Jul 2010North Korea cancels UN talks
North Korea's military today abruptly cancelled a rare meeting with the American-led UN Command that had been arranged to discuss the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang.
Military officers from North Korea and the UN Command were to meet at the Korean border village of Panmunjom this morning to discuss sinking that killed 46 South Korean sailors. It would have been the first such meeting since the sinking, which sharply raised tension on the divided Korean peninsula.
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