South Korean officials traveled Tuesday to North Korea for the first official dialogue between the two governments under South Korea's conservative President Lee Myung-bak, amid tension over Pyongyang's April 5 rocket launch.
Also adding strain to the meeting was North Korea's recent warning that the South not join a U.S.-led program to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. The North also has been holding a South Korean worker at a joint industrial complex for allegedly denouncing Pyongyang's political system.
South Korea hopes to try to win the release of the detained worker during the talks.
Local media have speculated the North could …
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