남북, 군사•체육•적십자회담 날짜 및 장소 결정... 고위급회담 정례화 합의
Let's start things off with the first inter-Korean high level talks since April's historic summit between Seoul and Pyongyang.
At the border village of Panmunjom, the two sides had a lot to hammer out, mainly, ways to follow through on the agreements of the joint declaration made at the summit.
We connect to our Oh Jung-hee, who joins us live from Seoul's Office for Inter-Korean Dialogue.
Jung-hee what can you tell us at this point.
Well Daniel, the dates are now set.
The two Koreas issued a joint press statement roughly two hours ago and rubberstamped specific schedules for plans they laid out regarding April's Panmunjom Declaration.
Let me just tell you some of the most important dates first.
Inter-Korean military talks will be held on June 14th, in roughly two weeks, to lower tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Inter-Korean sports talks will be held on June 18th to form unified teams for the 2018 Asian Games... and the Red Cross Talks will be held on June 22 to laid the groundwork for holding reunions of war-torn families.
The locations of all these meetings have been determined as well -- so we are pretty sure that all these meetings will take place as planned within June.
Other than these, the two Koreas agreed to soon open up a joint liaison office within the Kaesong Industrial Complex -- a joint economic project at the inter-Korean border that's been suspended since February 2016.
But we do not know exactly when that will happen because the two Koreas need to work on renovating the suspended industrial park.
The delegations also agreed to keep communicating to set schedules for working-level talks on forestation projects, railway connection... as well as a North Korean art troupe concert in South Korea this fall.
Seoul and Pyongyang stipulated that they will hold high-level talks regularly to check up on the progress of implementing the Panmunjom Declaration and set out new plans.
Meanwhile it's highly likely that the two Koreas won't hold a joint event on June 15th, which marks 18 years since the first inter-Korean declaration issued back in 2000... as the month is already jam-packed with several other joint events.
Daniel.
