兩韓軍方舉行祕密會談

South Korean media and lawmakers say senior military officials from North and South Korea held a secret meeting Wednesday to discuss recent cross-border gunfire.

The meeting, reported by Yonhap news agency and opposition politician Park Jie-won, occurred at the Panmunjom truce village located along the countries' tense de facto border.

The two sides were said to have discussed an incident last Friday in which the two Koreas exchanged small arms fire after Pyongyang fired at a balloon from the South carrying anti-North propaganda.

That followed an incident last week in which North and South Korean naval patrol boats traded warning shots along their disputed Yellow Sea border. There were no casualties or damage reported in either incident.

The clashes threaten to unravel high-level talks agreed to earlier this month after North Korea unexpectedly sent a senior delegation to the South.韓國媒體和國會議員說，朝鮮和韓國的高級軍事官員星期三舉行祕密會晤，討論最近的跨界交火問題。

據韓聯社和反對黨人士樸智源說，這次會談是在兩國交界的板門店停戰村舉行的。

據說雙方討論了朝鮮上星期五向發送傳單的反朝宣傳氣球開火後引發的輕型武器交火事件。

之前，朝鮮和韓國海軍巡邏艇上星期在有爭議的黃海邊界相互開炮示警。據報道，兩起事件都沒有造成人員傷亡或損失。

這些衝突可能會使本月早些時候商定的高級別會談流產。朝鮮之前出人意料地向韓國派出了一個高級代表團。