BBC Online :US Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting Seoul, a day after the two Koreas held their highest-level talks in six years.Kerry landed in South Korea on the first leg of an Asian tour that will also take in Beijing and Jakarta.He was expected to meet President Park Geun-hye and be briefed on the inter-Korean talks. The Koreas made little progress during Wednesday’s talks, but they are scheduled to meet again on Friday.The Unification Ministry in Seoul said a second meeting would be held at the border village of Panmunjom at North Korea’s request, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.The delegates are expected to discuss family reunions, which bring together relatives divided by the partitioning of the Korean peninsula in 1953. A Unification Ministry official quoted by Yonhap said that at Wednesday’s talks North Korea asked Seoul to delay joint military exercises with the US set for later this month. Seoul had rejected the request, the official said, adding that forthcoming family reunions should not be linked to the drills.”We proposed that South and North Korea build confidence by implementing the family reunions,” the official saidThe family reunions will be the first since 2010. They are due to begin on 20 February, four days before the annual US-South Korea joint military exercises begin.
