Taliban militants have resumed face-to-face talks with South Korean officials on the fate of 19 Korean volunteers held captive since July, a spokesman for the militants said Tuesday. An Associated Press reporter in the central town of Ghazni saw members of a South Korean delegation being driven into the venue of the meeting by Afghan intelligence officers. Later, a two-man Taliban delegation was brought to the compound in a vehicle belonging to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, said both sides had begun talking face to face. However, a South Korean Embassy official in Kabul said he could not confirm that talks had begun. The talks were taking place in the offices of the Afghan Red Crescent, the local partner of the ICRC. The Red Cross facilitated the previous talks.
