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(4th LD) Koreas fail to agree on reviving border tours amid tension
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- Officials from the two Koreas failed Monday to agree on steps to resume long-suspended cross-border tours, the Unification Ministry said, as tension escalated on the divided peninsula with the North warning of retaliation against those "seeking to topple its regime."
Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said the meeting in the North Korean border town of Kaesong ended "without any significant agreement" as Pyongyang maintained its refusal to accept South Korean conditions for the resumption of the tours.
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.
Chun told reporters that the South Korean delegation demanded during the meeting that its government officials be granted an on-site probe into the shooting death of Park Wang-ja in July that year.
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