South Korea and North Korea may set the date for a scheduled meeting for their leaders Thursday when their high-level officials meet to also discuss topics for the rare summit, an official from South Korea's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said.
The remarks came hours before high-level officials from the divided Koreas were set to meet over the proposed inter-Korean summit.
"They will mainly discuss three issues today. First, when the South-North summit will be held will likely emerge," the official told reporters, stressing the possibility seemed "highly likely."
"The second is the agenda. How they will begin to discuss issues. And another issue is working-level talks," the official added.
So far, the countries have only agreed to hold a meeting of their leaders in late April.
The proposed meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will mark a third inter-Korean summit, but the first to be held on South Korean soil as it will be held on the South Korean side of the joint security area of Panmunjom inside the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone. It will also make Kim Jong-un the first North Korean leader to step on South Korean soil since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Both the first and second inter-Korean summits were held in Pyongyang in 2000 and 2007, involving the late South Korean Presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, and Kim Jong-un's late father Kim Jong-il.
The two Koreas technically remain at war as the Korean War ended only with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
The third inter-Korean summit is scheduled to be followed by what will be the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit. Dates for the meeting between Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump have not yet been set either. (Yonhap)