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ROK, DPRK take steps forward to form delegation for tour talk
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February 4, 2010, Thursday
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THE Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) notified South Korea that the delegation for the working-level talks to discuss resuming cross-border tours will consist of officials fully entrusted with authority to deal with the related matters, the South Korean government said today.
The move comes after South Korea told the DPRK that an official who can discuss security issues for its tourists can head the DPRK 's delegation to hold a working-level talks next Monday.
"It is the government's position that any agreement reached at the working-level meeting will be finalized by authorities in both Seoul and Pyongyang," ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung told reporters a day ago, an apparent sign that Seoul wants authoritative figures to be involved in the talks.
The DPRK will soon inform South Korea of the list of officials expected to attend the meeting, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry.
In what many see as a peace gesture, the DPRK in early January proposed to hold talks on reopening tours to its mountain resort on the east coast and the border town of Kaesong near the east coast, halted in 2008 after a South Korean female tourist was shot to death by a DPRK sentinel.
Tours to the historic border town of Kaesong was also suspended in the same year, rapidly souring inter-Korean ties that were already freezing since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office earlier that year with a hard-line approach to the DPRK.
The move comes after South Korea told the DPRK that an official who can discuss security issues for its tourists can head the DPRK 's delegation to hold a working-level talks next Monday.
"It is the government's position that any agreement reached at the working-level meeting will be finalized by authorities in both Seoul and Pyongyang," ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung told reporters a day ago, an apparent sign that Seoul wants authoritative figures to be involved in the talks.
The DPRK will soon inform South Korea of the list of officials expected to attend the meeting, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry.
In what many see as a peace gesture, the DPRK in early January proposed to hold talks on reopening tours to its mountain resort on the east coast and the border town of Kaesong near the east coast, halted in 2008 after a South Korean female tourist was shot to death by a DPRK sentinel.
Tours to the historic border town of Kaesong was also suspended in the same year, rapidly souring inter-Korean ties that were already freezing since South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office earlier that year with a hard-line approach to the DPRK.
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