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(3rd LD) Koreas end talks on cross-border tours, North stokes tension
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- Officials from the two Koreas ended talks Monday on ways to resume long-suspended cross-border tours, the Unification Ministry said, as the North raised tension by warning of retaliation against those seeking to topple its regime.
The ministry did not say if the sides reached an agreement on the tours that the cash-strapped North hoped would resume immediately even as it refused to agree to long-standing South Korean demands.
The tours to Mount Kumgang on the east coast and the historic town of Kaesong near the west coast were a rare cash cow for Pyongyang until their suspension in 2008 when a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a North Korean guard at the mountain.
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