South and North Korean officials will hold talks at the truce village of Panmunjeom Thursday afternoon to discuss Seoul's supply of fuel and energy-related equipment to Pyongyang.
The talks will be held within the framework of the six-way nuclear accord signed last year.
The one-day meeting is designed to let the two Koreas prepare for a six-party meeting on energy aid next Wednesday at the same venue. It will be the first meeting in eight months the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan.
"North Korea requested the working group meeting of the six parties," Hwang Joon-kook, head of the South Korean Foreign Ministry's North Korean nuclear issue bureau, was quoted as saying. He chairs the working group, a product of the aid-for-denuclearization deal.