ROK-DPRK talks resume, but tensions remain Senior officials from South Korea and the DPRK started a second round of top-level talks on Sunday afternoon, to ease tensions that brought the peninsula to the brink of an armed conflict. The talks are a follow-up to Saturday evening’s talks by top aides to the leaders of both sides in Panmunjom, a village in the demilitarized border zone, shortly after the DPRK's deadline for Seoul to halt its propaganda broadcasts or face military action. The last ro