Koreas’ summit opens with discord

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SEOUL, Oct 3 (AP): South Korea's president said the first summit in seven years with North Korea began Wednesday on some discordant notes, but in a sign of promise for the talks North Korean leader Kim Jong Il suggested the meeting be extended an extra day.
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Kim took issue with the pace of Seoul's actions regarding international talks on the North's nuclear programme, that he had problems with the two countries' joint industrial zone, and that they even quibbled over semantics about efforts to mend decades of enmity.
"We were candid and frank in engaging in the discussion," Roh said at a luncheon with the South Korean delegation in Pyongyang after two hours of talks with Kim, according to pool video relayed to Seoul. "In some issues we did not share the same perceptions."
However, when the two leaders resumed meeting after lunch, Kim proposed that the talks be extended to Friday beyond their scheduled Thursday close, South Korean presidential spokesman Yoon Seong-yong told reporters in Seoul.
Yoon said Seoul officials were considering the offer, and that they interpreted it as Kim's desire for the talks to proceed in a "more substantial way."
Earlier, Roh said the North "may not be too happy about the pace in which South Korea agreed to implement certain measures" at international arms talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme. Roh gave no details, but he was likely referring to aid in exchange for disarmament.
Roh also said Kim had issues about the two countries' joint industrial zone in the North Korean border city of Kaesong - one of the main achievements of the first-ever summit between the Koreas, held in 2000. The South Korean leader has said he would seek this week to expand economic cooperation between the two sides.