(ATR) Talks this week between South and North Korea over a unified team for the 2008 Olympics are apparently off. North Korea has not followed up on arrangements with the South about the meeting, a source familiar with the talks tells Around the Rings.
The two sides were due to meet Thursday and Friday at the DMZ, but a Korean Olympic Committee official says without word from the North, nothing can happen.
This would have been the third round of talks on the unified team issue, the last round held in June. An impasse remains on the most basic of issues, how to fairly select a team from North and South.
The break in the negotiations appears to stem from a walkout last week by North Korean delegates at talks in Busan on other issues.
The North Koreans objected to questions from the South as to why they carried out missile tests earlier in the month, accusing the south of destroying inter-Korean cooperation.
Abandoned are plans for a unified team at the 2006 Asian Games, now less than five months away. North Korea says there is not enough time remaining to sort out the details. The Asian Games begin Dec. 1 in Doha, Qatar.
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