KCNA keeps mum on inter-Korean contacts in Indonesia

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's official media on Saturday reported the attendance of the country's delegates at the ASEAN Regional Forum under way in Bali, Indonesia, but didn't mention their contact with South Korean officials.
   The North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun on Friday held talks respectively with his Chinese and Russian counterparts Yang Jiechi and Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the forum.
   The KCNA also noted that Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ri Yong-ho was on hand at the meetings but it didn't mention Ri's separate meeting with South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator Wi Sung-lac in Bali on Friday, let alone Pak's informal talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan on Saturday.
   Those rare inter-Korean contacts appeared to have laid the ground for the resumption of stalled six-party talks on ending the North's nuclear weapons program.
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