Hwang Pyong So, left, vice chairman of North Korea's National Defense Commission, shakes hands with South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae upon his arrival at a hotel in Incheon, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 4 Photo: AP
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's presumptive No. 2 led members of Pyongyang's inner circle on a rare trip to South Korea for the close of the Asian Games on Saturday, with the rivals holding their highest level face-to-face talks in five years and agreeing to meet again in coming weeks.
After months of tensions, including a steady stream of insults between the divided neighbors and an unusual number of North Korean missile and rocket test firings, expectations for a breakthrough weren't high, but the two sides agreed to have more senior level talks between the end of October and the beginning of November, according to a South Korean statement. The topics of Saturday's discussions or the future talks weren't immediately known.
Still, even the visit itself was significant after the animosity the Korean Peninsula has seen this year, allowing valuable contact between confidants of North Korea's authoritarian leader and senior South Korean officials.
One analyst called it a "golden opportunity" for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to test North Korea's willingness, at the highest levels, to improve shaky ties. The South Korean statement said Park had been willing to meet with the Pyongyang officials but the North Koreans were running out of time because they had to attend the Asian Games' closing ceremonies Saturday evening.
The North Korean delegation to the games in the South Korean port city of Incheon was led by Hwang Pyong So, the top political officer for the Korean People's Army and considered by outside analysts to be the country's second most important official after North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong Un. Hwang is also a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission led by Kim and a vice marshal of the army.
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