韓國呼籲朝鮮接受軍事會談的提議

South Korea called on North Korea Friday to “quickly accept” its offer to hold military talks in a bid to easy rising border tensions on the Korean Peninsula and eventually to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

Pyongyang has yet to officially respond to Seoul's proposal for the military meeting and for separate talks next month to resume the temporary reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

South Korea's Defense Ministry said in a statement Friday that it has become difficult to hold the meeting Seoul had initially proposed for July 21 at the Panmunjom truce village on the heavily militarized inter-Korean border.

“Easing the military tension between the South and North and restoring the military dialogue channel are very urgent tasks for peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula,'' the statement said.

If Seoul's proposal materialized at some point, the talks would be the first inter-Korean dialogue since December 2015.

Since then, ties between the Koreas have worsened over North Korea's expanding nuclear and missile programs.韓國星期五呼籲朝鮮“迅速接受”韓國提出的軍事會談建議，緩和朝鮮半島不斷升級的邊界緊張局勢，並最終解除朝鮮的核武器項目。

針對韓國的軍事會談提議，以及下個月圍繞恢復韓戰離散家庭團聚舉行會談的建議，朝鮮方面尚未做出正式回覆。

韓國國防部星期五發表聲明說，韓國原本提出7月21日在板門店舉行會談，現在看起來很難實現。

聲明說：”緩解韓國和朝鮮的軍事緊張狀態，恢復軍事對話渠道，對朝鮮半島的和平穩定來說是十分緊迫的任務。“

如果韓國的提議能夠成爲現實的話，這次會談將是2015年12月以來朝鮮半島雙方的首次對話。

自那時以來，朝鮮核武器和導彈項目的不斷擴張使雙方關係日趨惡化。