The current summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will open up new possibilities for «peace, co-prosperity and the reunification» of the Korean Peninsula, a top North Korean diplomat said Tuesday, according to AP. «Nothing is more urgent and important than the reunification of our nation, (which) has been living for more than half a century with the sufferings of territorial division imposed by outside forces,» Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Choe Su Hon told the U.N. General Assembly. He was speaking as the first summit between the divided Koreas in seven years opened earlier in the day in North Korea's capital of Pyongyang. It was only the second time leaders of the two Koreas have met since the nation was divided after World War II. Also on Tuesday, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Washington has endorsed a plan aimed at disabling North Korea's nuclear facilities by year's end. Negotiators from six nations reached tentative agreement in Beijing on Sunday but said the plan required further consideration by their governments.
