1 of 2 | A general view of the Tongilgak which is meeting place on the northern side of the border truce village of Panmunjom, North Korea. Photo by STR / EPA
June 30 (Asia Today) -- South Korea released thousands of pages of records Tuesday documenting intense exchanges between Seoul and Pyongyang during nuclear negotiations in the early 1990s, including delegates pounding tables, trading insults and mocking one another's appearance.
The Unification Ministry disclosed 3,836 pages covering 32 rounds of nuclear negotiations held from December 1991 through January 1993.
The documents include discussions that produced the Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, an agreement establishing the South-North Joint Nuclear Control Commission and negotiations over inspection rules intended to verify denuclearization.
The release was the ministry's eighth disclosure of inter-Korean meeting documents since the program began in May 2022.
