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S. Korea, Iran agree to continue talks on ship seizure, frozen assets after little progress
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) South Korea and Iran will continue talks for the early release of a seized Korean ship and to resolve the issue of Tehran s frozen assets here, Seoul officials said Wednesday, amid little signs of progress on those issues in their recent high-level meetings in Tehran.
A South Korean delegation, led by First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun, wrapped up its three-day visit to Tehran on Tuesday (Tehran time) as tensions have flared up after Iran s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps seized a South Korean oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on Jan. 4.