SEOUL: North Korea has 'responded' to efforts by the United Nations Command to discuss American soldier Travis King, who ran across the border into North Korea last month and is believed to
, who ran across the border into North Korea last month and is believed to be detained by Pyongyang, the Command said on Thursday .
The latest announcement comes more than a week after the UN Command said it had started a conversation with the North over the soldier. "Yesterday, finally, the North Koreans acknowledged that they understand we're asking these questions. They haven't given us responses," he added.After a drunken pub fight, an incident with police and a stay in South Korean jail, Private Second Class King was being taken to the airport last month to fly back to Texas.
But at the JSA, the frontier is marked only by a low concrete divider and is relatively easy to cross, despite the presence of soldiers on both sides. But Thursday's development"reads as a sign of North's willingness to negotiate", Vladimir Tikhonov, professor of Korean studies at the University of Oslo, told AFP.
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