Korea Talks

Linda talks to BBC reporter Charles Scanlon about the proposal announced today by President Clinton and South Korean president Kim Young-Sam for peace talks to end the standoff between North and South Korea. The talks would include the Koreas, the U-S, and China. The immediate reaction from North Korea was negative. Scanlon says that in the past, China has not been particularly enthusiastic about participating in such talks, but in the last few years has come to have and economic relationship with South Korea and may now have an interest in seeing peace on the Korean peninsula. (4:30) 10. WHY TRUCE AND NOT PEACE? - NPR's Ted Clark looks at the history of the armistice in Korea, and why 43 years ago North and South Korea would not agree to peace. In 1953, the South Koreans objected to peace, but today it is the North that is balking.