North and South Korea held rare talks lasting just under one hour, about their jointly managed Kaesong industrial park.Hopes of progress were low amid tensions over the North's nuclear programme.
Key Security Council members have agreed on the wording of a draft UN resolution to expand sanctions against North Korea, diplomats say.
The move is a response to Pyongyang's recent nuclear and missile testing.
The BBC's correspondent John Sudworth says the Kaesong plant was seen as a symbol of possible reconciliation between the two halves of this divided peninsular, but amid the worsening security situation, the future of the project is now in doubt.
Last month North Korea announced that it was unilaterally scrapping wage and rent agreements, and if the 100 or so South Korean companies operating there didn't like it, they could leave. One South Korean firm did leave this week.
South Korea, for its part, wants a South Korean manager released from North Korean detention.
Officials in Seoul said they had low expectations from the talks, only the second this year, given the North's recent nuclear and missile tests.
Officials in Seoul said they had low expectations from the talks, only the second this year, given the North's recent nuclear and missile tests.
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