North Korea and the US-led United Nations Command held military talks the third round since the sinking of a South Korean warship that was blamed on the North. A Command spokesman said, Colonels from the two sides met at the border truce village of Panmunjom to try to arrange higher-level talks on the issue. Cross-border tensions have risen sharply since South Korea and the United States accused the North in late May of torpedoing the ship near the disputed inter-Korean border with the loss of 46 lives.