Senior U.S. and North Korean diplomats are holding rare one-on-one meetings in Berlin to lay the groundwork for another session of multinational talks on the North's nuclear weapons. The meetings come amid expectations that the talks, and parallel discussions of North Korean financial issues, will resume soon. VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul.

An opera containing a scene in which the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad is depicted has opened under heavy security in Germany's capital, Berlin.