South Korea's prime minister and North Korea's No. 2 leader agreed to restart stalled inter-Korean talks during a meeting Saturday on the sidelines of an Asian-African summit in Jakarta, a senior Indonesian official said. The meeting between Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan and North Korea's Kim Yong Nam is the second between the two leaders since Friday. It addressed key issues including attempts to persuade Pyongyang to return to six-party talks aimed at getting North Korea to suspend its nuclear program. "They agreed to resume the inter-Korean dialogue ... and they agreed to exchange views over the six-party talks," said Jacob Tobing, Indonesia's ambassador to South Korea. "We know they both need this kind of meeting so we offered to facilitate it. I'm very satisfied. At least one step has been taken but there is a lot work ahead," said Tobing, who was at the conference with the South Korean delegation. Earlier Kim Sang Soo, the information attache at the South Korean embassy in Jakarta, confirmed a meeting took place but refused to provide details. Neither leader spoke to reporters as they left the talks, which lasted about 30 minutes. --MORE 1058 Local Time 0758 GMT
