Today is another big day of diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula.<br />High-level delegations of South and North Korea are set to meet at the border village of Panmunjeom in a few hours from now.... to hammer out the details of their highly-anticipated leaders' summit slated for late April.<br />Let's go straight live to our Oh Jung-hee, who's standing by at the Office for the Inter-Korean Dialogue.<br />Jung-hee.<br /><br /> Good morning, Semin.<br />Today's talks are the second high-level talks after first held back in January, where North Korea decided to participate in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.<br />Relations between the two Koreas have since thawed at an unprecedented pace... and today, Seoul and Pyongyang are meeting to set the agenda and the date... of the inter-Korean summit late next month.<br /> The talks will begin at 10am South Korea time, at Tongilgak -- a building located on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjeom.<br />Seoul's delegation is to leave the Office for the Inter-Korean Dialogue in less than 30 minutes from now... after giving a brief statement to the press.<br /><br /> The delegations are made up of three officials from each side.<br /> The South Korean delegation is led by Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon.<br />The other two officials are Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung and Yoon Young-chan, the top press secretary at the presidential office.<br />They all belong to South Korea's preparation committee for the summit talks.<br /> The North Korean side is led by Ri Son-kwon, chairman of the North's Committee for Peaceful Reunification... and includes two others from the same committee.<br />Ri headed the regime's delegation back in January.<br /><br /> Jung-hee, so what can we expect from this latwest round of talks? There must be some things both sides have in mind to discuss today.<br /><br /> That's right, as I mentioned... the main objective is to set the agenda and the date for the summit next month.<br />South Korea's summit preparation committee has three big tasks for now -- denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, setting an ever-lasting peace and lowering tensions,... and finally improving inter-Korean relations.<br />So, we're expecting Seoul and Pyongyang could exchange opinions on these three things.<br /> But especially as today's talks come hot on the heels of Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's meeting in Beijing,... we could hear more on the North's explanation on that as well.<br />Kim reportedly told Xi that denuclearization has always been his ancestors' teaching and is therefore the regime's goal.<br />So we could hear some specific steps that the regime is going to take on its path to abandon its nuclear weapons.<br /> The date for the summit is also expected to be determined through today’s meeting... and as for now, the 26th or 27th of April are considered the most likely dates.<br />The location of the summit has already been set as the Peace House at the South Korean side of the border village of Panmunjeom.<br />Back to you, Semin. <br />
