Inter-Korean talks last just 22 minutes

SEOUL (AFP) - Rare talks between North and South Korea ended without agreement late Tuesday after just 22 minutes, Seouls Unification Ministry said.
A spokesman had no immediate details on what happened at the talks, which had been delayed for some 12 hours by procedural disputes.
The meeting at the Kaesong joint industrial estate just north of the heavily fortified border was the first formal one since a conservative government took office in Seoul almost 14 months ago.
Relations are at their worst in a decade after President Lee Myung-Bak abandoned his predecessors policy of providing almost unconditional aid to the communist state.
Regional tensions are also rising after the Norths purported satellite launch on April 5, widely seen overseas as a disguised missile test.
The North, angry at UN censure of the launch, has announced it is quitting nuclear disarmament talks and restarting its atomic weapons programme. It has expelled US and UN nuclear inspectors.
In Tuesdays talks the seven-member Seoul delegation was seeking access to a South Korean worker being held by the North at Kaesong for allegedly criticising its political system.
The North gave no indication of what it wanted to discuss when it proposed the meeting last week.
It said only that it had an important notice to announce regarding the Seoul-funded Kaesong estate, built as a symbol of reconciliation between two countries, which have remained technically at war since their 1950-53 conflict.
Pyongyang is angry at Seouls announced intention to join a US-led initiative against shipments of weapons of mass destruction.
It says any move by its neighbour to join the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) would be seen as a declaration of war.
The Lee group of traitors should never forget that Seoul is just 50km) away from the border, the Norths military spokesman said Saturday, suggesting the city is vulnerable to attack. Analysts believed the North would try to force the South to choose between PSI and the future of Kaesong, using the detainee as a bargaining chip. Cho Bong-Hyun, an analyst with South Korean bank IBK, said the North would likely bring charges against the detainee to raise tensions and may even demand that all South Korean workers quit the joint venture.
Chances are they will be saying, 'These are the results of our investigation and the crime is so grave he has to be tried here, Cho told Yonhap before the meeting, citing sources involved in Kaesong.
There could be a further warning, such as ordering all South Korean workers to leave the complex unless Seoul makes a big compromise.
The Unification Ministry said Seoul would respond strongly to any attempt to charge the detainee with a crime.
Spokeswoman Lee Jong-Joo said the previously agreed procedure is for South Korean employees at Kaesong to be warned, fined or expelled for any infraction.
She stressed that PSI and the investigation into the detainee are separate issues. These two issues cannot be and must not be linked.
Opened in 2005, Kaesong is both a symbol of reconciliation and an attempt to combine the Norths cheap but skilled labour with the Souths capital and know-how.
Some 38,300 North Koreans work at 101 South Korean firms, producing items such as garments, kitchenware and watches.
But operations have often been hit by political tensions. In December the North restricted border crossings and expelled hundreds of South Korean managers from the estate.