Koreas, China, U.S Begin Peace Talks

North and South Korea have opened a new phase in their peace talks, beginning their first substantive negotiations with China and the United States after more than a year of meetings to lay the groundwork. “We actually had good, substantive discussions,” U.S. special envoy Charles Kartman said in Geneva. Kartman said delegates would work in two committees--one to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula and the other to decide how to put in place a permanent peace. A U.S. official said the negotiators examined several proposals.