North, South Korea agree to hold ministerial negotiation

South Korea’s news agency Yonhap quoted the Ministry of Unification as saying that the South and North agreed to hold a ministerial meeting on Wednesday and Thursday in Seoul to address inter-Korean issues. The agreement was reached at the expert-level round of talks at the truce village of Panmunjon. The agenda of the upcoming ministerial meeting will be the normalization of the joint-run industrial zone Kaesong, re-opening tours to the Kumgang mountain resort and reuniting separated members of Korean families from the 1950-1953 Korean war as well as other humanitarian issues. Both sides will also discuss celebrations for the joint statement days (June 15 and July 14, 1972), non-governmental visits and further cooperation projects. These are the first government-level talks between the two Koreas for the last six years.


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Chun Hae-sung of South Korea (R) and Kim Sung-hye of North Korea at the expert-level talks in Panmunjon (Photo: Yonhap news)

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