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N. Korea proposes to resume talks with S. Korea
Source: Xinhua |
January 8, 2011, Saturday
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NORTH Korea today proposed to resume talks with South Korea on tourism, an industrial zone and Red Cross-related issues in late January or early February.
The North Korea proposed an unconditional and early reopening of the talks between the North and South, of which the level, venue and date may be decided under a bilateral agreement, said a statement issued by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea.
The suspended Red Cross talks and talks on the resumption of tour of Mt. Kumgang and the issue of Kaesong Industrial Zone should be restarted at an early date, it stressed, suggesting they be held in Kaesong at the end of January or in the first half of February.
The statement, quoted by the official KCNA news agency, called for "settling the grave situation prevailing in Korea as early as possible and paving the way for improved relations between the North and the South as well as peace and prosperity."
"In view of the urgent situation, the aspiration and demand of the times and the nation and in the light of the public opinion at home and abroad, the proposal was the most just and timely patriotic one," it added.
The North Korea proposed an unconditional and early reopening of the talks between the North and South, of which the level, venue and date may be decided under a bilateral agreement, said a statement issued by the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea.
The suspended Red Cross talks and talks on the resumption of tour of Mt. Kumgang and the issue of Kaesong Industrial Zone should be restarted at an early date, it stressed, suggesting they be held in Kaesong at the end of January or in the first half of February.
The statement, quoted by the official KCNA news agency, called for "settling the grave situation prevailing in Korea as early as possible and paving the way for improved relations between the North and the South as well as peace and prosperity."
"In view of the urgent situation, the aspiration and demand of the times and the nation and in the light of the public opinion at home and abroad, the proposal was the most just and timely patriotic one," it added.
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