Resolve ship, then consider N talks: S Korea tells North

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SEOUL, June 22 (Reuters): South Korea wants to focus on a response to the sinking of one of its warships before resuming multilateral talks to end the North's nuclear arms programmes, Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan was quoted as saying Tuesday.
The March 26 sinking of the corvette Cheonan near the de facto maritime border between the two Koreas has raised tension in the region and further complicated already hamstrung diplomatic efforts to revive six-nation talks on the denuclearisation of North Korea.
"As North Korea was found to have sunk the warship Cheonan, the government will concentrate on the Cheonan incident at this stage," the South's Yonhap news quoted Yu as saying during a meeting of parliament.
The government "will consult related countries on resuming six-party talks after completing its response", he said.