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Wed, September 27, 2023 | 05:16
Two Koreas hold working-level dialogue this afternoon
남북 실무접촉…홍용표 "국민 납득할 결과 나오도록 회담"
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Kim Ki-woong, center, South Korea's chief negotiator for Thursday's working-level meeeting between South Korea and North Korea, is leaving Office of Inter-Korean Dialogue in Samcheong-dong, Seoul, Thursday morning. / Yonhap
Kim Ki-woong, center, South Korea's chief negotiator for Thursday's working-level meeeting between South Korea and North Korea, is leaving Office of Inter-Korean Dialogue in Samcheong-dong, Seoul, Thursday morning. / Yonhap

North and South Korea kicked off a working-level meeting on Thursday afternoon to decide details of a high-level talks that the two countries agreed in August to hold as soon as possible, Yonhap news agency reported Thursday.


The preparatory meeting took place on the North's side of the truce village of Panmunjeom at 12:50 p.m. Seoul sent Kim Ki-woong as the chief negotiator for the meeting.

The meeting, offered by the North, will likely be a discussion about time, venue and agenda for the high-level talks. It will also be to implement the deal made by the two nations on Aug. 25 on defusing military tension.

Part of the August deal was agreeing to hold a high-level government talk as early as possible either in Seoul or Pyongyang. The deal came after the land mine blast in early August, for which the South blamed the North for maiming two South Korean soldiers at the North-South border.

In the meeting, the South is expected to propose holding the reunions of the families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War on a regular basis. Some 66,000 South Koreans are estimated to have family members living across the border.

The North is likely to suggest resuming the inter-Korean tour program at Mount Geumgang in the North, a symbol of inter-Korean reconciliation. The program was halted in 2008 when a North Korean soldier killed a female South Korean tourist at the scenic resort.


남북 실무접촉…홍용표 "국민 납득할 결과 나오도록 회담"

판문점 북측 지역인 통일각에서 26일 오전 10시30분(평양시 기준 10시)에 시작하는 남북 당국회담 실무접촉에 참가하는 남측 대표단이 이날 오전 8시 삼청동 남북회담본부를 출발했다.

홍용표 통일부 장관은 남측 대표단이 출발한 직후 회담본부에서 기자들과 만나 ''8·25 합의'의 모멘텀을 살려나갈 수 있도록 회담(실무접촉)에 임하겠다'며 '국민이 납득할 수 있는 결과가 나오도록 회담을 하겠다'고 말했다.

남측 수석대표인 김기웅 통일부 남북회담본부장도 회담장인 판문점 통일각으로 출발하면서 기자들에게 '(지난 8월) 고위당국자접촉에서 합의했던 사항들을 성실하게 이행한다는 입장에서 최선을 다하겠다'고 각오를 밝혔다. 

앞서 홍 장관은 회담본부에서 남측 대표단과 티타임을 갖고 '좋은 결과가 있는 바란다'는 취지의 발언을 하면서 남측 대표단을 격려했다고 통일부 당국자는 전했다.

남측 대표단은 김 본부장을 수석대표로 김충환 통일부 국장, 손재락 총리실 국장 등 3명이며, 북측 대표단은 황철 조국평화통일위원회(조평통) 서기국 부장을 수석대표로 김명철, 김철영 등 3명이다.

남북은 이번 실무접촉에서 '8·25 합의'의 핵심 합의사항인 당국회담 관련 수석대표의 격(格) 문제와 의제, 시기, 장소 등을 협의하게 된다. (연합뉴스)
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