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Mon, August 15, 2022 | 06:15
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N. Korea agrees to hold working-level talks at Panmunjom
南北, 내일 오전10시 판문점에서 실무접촉
Posted : 2013-06-08 14:21
Updated : 2013-06-08 14:21
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North Korea on Saturday agreed to hold working-level talks with South Korea at the truce village of Panmunjom to prepare for a planned ministerial dialogue between the two divided countries, officials here said.

The preparatory working-levels talks are now set for 10 a.m. Sunday at the Freedom House, an administrative building in the southern side of the joint security area, said the Unification Ministry officials.

The two Koreas have already agreed to hold a Cabinet-level meeting in Seoul on Wednesday. The Cabinet-level meeting, if held, will be the first of its kind since 2007.

North Korea had proposed its border city of Kaesong as a venue of the working-level talks but South Korea on Friday counterproposed the truce village as a meeting place, which North Korea accepted on Saturday.

The North's letter of acceptance was convened to Seoul through a Red Cross phone line reopened on Thursday after being severed by the North in March due to rising cross-border military tensions, the officials said.

North Korea will be represented at the meeting by thee director-level officials, they said, quoting the North's message.

When it proposed the government-level talks with South Korea earlier this week, North Korea suggested that both sides discuss a wide-range of issues, including reopening a shuttered joint industrial complex, resuming cross-border tours and reunions of separated families.

The two Koreas remain divided since 1945. They fought a bloody three-year in the early 1950s.


南北, 내일 오전10시 판문점에서 실무접촉

남북 장관급 회담을 위한 국장급 실무접촉이 9일 오전 판문점 우리측 지역인 '평화의 집'에서 열린다.

    북한은 8일 남북 국장급 실무접촉을 9일 오전 10시 판문점 우리측 평화의 집에서 갖자는 우리 측의 수정 제안에 동의했다고 정부 당국자가 밝혔다.

    북한 측 연락관은 이날 오전 10시께 판문점 연락채널을 통해 이같은 북한의 입장을 전달해 왔다.

    북한은 이번 실무접촉에 국장급 등 3명의 대표가 나갈 것이라고 우리 측에 통보했다.

    실무접촉에서는 남북간 오는 12일 개최하기로 의견을 모은 장관급회담의 운영과 관련해 대표단 규모, 체류일정, 의제 등에 대해 논의할 것으로 예상된다.

    앞서 북한 측 연락관은 이날 오전 9시께 우리 측과 시험통화에서는 '좀 기다려달라. (공식 반응이) 오면 입장을 전하겠다'고 말한 바있다.

    정부는 7일 '남북 장관급 회담 개최를 위한 실무접촉을 오는 9일 갖자'는 북한측 제의를 수용하는 대신 장소는 북한이 원하는 '개성'대신 '판문점 우리측 평화의 집'에서 하자고 수정 제의했다.
 
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