N. Korea committed to improving ties with South: NK official

A senior North Korean official said Thursday his country will work "actively" to improve relations with South Korea based on the spirit of a recent landmark agreement between the two sides.

Kim Yang-gon, Pyongyang's top official handling inter-Korean ties, also called on the two sides to move in a constructive direction toward the reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

"Based on the spirit of the urgent high-level contact between the North and South, we will work actively to improve North-South relations, in line with the aim and wish of our people," he said through the North's Korean Central Broadcasting Station

Kim took part in the 2+2 high-level talks from Saturday through Tuesday, which led to a breakthrough agreement in which the North expressed regret over a land mine attack that maimed two South Korean soldiers and the South halted anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts along their border. (Yonhap)