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(5th LD) Koreas fail to agree on resuming border tours, North stokes tension
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- Officials from North and South Korea ended talks Monday without an agreement on steps to restart stalled cross-border tours, as Pyongyang's top security organs warned of an attack on Seoul with what they called secret weapons.
The tours to Mount Kumgang in the east and the historic border town of Kaesong in the west raised hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars for Pyongyang until they were suspended in 2008 when a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a North Korean guard at the mountain.
Chief South Korean delegate Kim Nam-sik said in a briefing after returning from the talks in Kaesong that North Korea maintained its refusal to allow a joint on-site investigation into the shooting.
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