SEOUL, South Korea, November 14, SPA -- The prime ministers of North and South Korea met Wednesday for the first time in 15 years, hoping to extend the detente fostered by the second-ever summit of their leaders last month with new South Korean investment in the impoverished North. North Korean Prime Minister Kim Yong Il said afterarriving in Seoul on a direct flight from Pyongyang that hethought the three days of talks would «go well in a warmatmosphere» based on his welcome. The two sides last held prime ministerial talks in 1992that were suspended amid the first crisis over the North'snuclear weapons program. Kim ranks below the top members of the North's rulingelite: leader Kim Jong Il and the country's No. 2 officialKim Yong Nam. He is meeting with South Korean PrimeMinister Han Duck-soo, who is the deputy of South KoreanPresident Roh Moo-hyun.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/499743