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SEOUL-South Korea told its communist neighbor on Wednesday to stop a barrage of insults and threats which it said were adding to tension across one of the world's most heavily militarized borders.Hermit North Korea, unsettled by the new South Korean president's demands it show more respect for human rights and uphold its part of an international denuclearization deal, has shown its outrage through furious rhetoric and, last week, a missile test."Your random slander and tension-raising moves are not benefiting peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and we strongly ask you to immediately halt such acts," the Defence Ministry said in letter to its North Korean counterpart.Since the two governments are technically at war and have no direct contact, the letter had to be sent by fax from the United Nations Command on the so-called Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) which divides the Korean peninsula.The increasingly frosty exchanges have cast a shadow over the "sunshine policy" of previous Seoul governments of the past decade, which ensured massive aid flows to the impoverished North for little in return apart from the hope of stability.They also come as North Korea has been dragging its heels over a promise to make a full disclosure to the international community of everything it has been doing to develop a nuclear arsenal in return for aid and an end to its isolation."We are really running out of time," chief U.S. envoy to the North Korea nuclear talks, Christopher Hill, told reporters after talks with South Korean foreign ministry officials in Seoul.To read more go to:
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