S.Korea Accepts DPRK's Proposal to Hold Red Cross Talks

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, December 09, 2002

S.Korea Accepts DPRK's Proposal to Hold Red Cross Talks

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The South Korean Red Cross Monday accepted a proposal put forward by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to hold three-day talks from Dec. 15 in the DPRK side, reported South Korean national news agency Yonhap News.

Lee Byung-woong, chief of South Korea's Red Cross working-level delegation, made the acceptance in a telephone message to Li Gum-chol, head of the DPRK Red Cross working-level team, said Yonhap.

The DPRK proposed on Friday to hold such working-level talks ondetails to set up a reunion center for separated family members atthe Haegeumgang Hotel at DPRK's port of Changjon.

In October's inter-Korean Red Cross talks, South Korea and the DPRK agreed to set up a permanent reunion center for the separated families after the Korean War (1950-1953) in the village of Chop in Onjongri on the foot of the scenic mountain located on the eastern coast of the DPRK.

However, the two sides failed to sign the agreement because of the difference over the timing of the center's construction and another round of exchange visits of separated family members.

Up to now, South Korea and the DPRK have arranged five rounds of family reunions under the significant South-North joint statement announced in the historic 2000 inter-Korean summit between South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and the DPRK leader Kim Jong-il.

The latest one was held on mid-September, in which 100 Koreans of the DPRK and 99 South Koreans met with their relatives lived inother part of the Korean Peninsula at Mount Geumgang.

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