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Inter-Korean high-level talks begin at truce village of Panmunjeom

2018-03-29 4 Dailymotion

Today is another big day of diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula.<br />High-level delegations from South and North Korea are meeting at the border village of Panmunjeom right now... to hammer out the details of their highly-anticipated leaders' summit slated for late April.<br />Let's go live to our Oh Jung-hee, who's standing by at the Office for Inter-Korean Dialogue.<br />Jung-hee.<br /><br /> Mark.<br />The general meeting for today's high-level talks between Seoul and Pyongyang has actually wrapped up already.<br />We're hearing that the meeting began at ten, roughly two hours ago, and lasted for about 50 minutes.<br /> It's known that the delegations candidly exchanged views on several things including the date of the summit.<br />Seoul's unification ministry is also telling us that representatives will soon hold another meeting to agree on a joint press statement.<br /><br />The talks are being held at Tongilgak -- a building located on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjeom.<br /> The South Korean delegation is led by Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon...<br /> and the North Korean side is led by Ri Son-kwon, chairman of the North's Committee for Peaceful Reunification.<br /> The two headed their delegations during previous high-level talks back in January as well.<br /><br />Opening up today's meeting, leaders of Seoul and Pyongyang's delegations shared brief greetings.<br />Take a listen to what they had to say.<br /><br /> "I especially want to express my appreciation over how North Korea sincerely celebrated the PyeongChang Winter Olympics,... sending a high-level delegation, athletes, cheerleaders and art troupes to South Korea. We will also sincerely take part in today's discussion... so that the scheduled summit talks can be held successfully."<br /><br /> "We saw a lot of historic events take place between the North and the South over the past 80 days. I believe they happened because we put our hearts, minds, efforts, and power together. I also want to deliver my appreciation to the South Korean government and people."<br /><br /> Jung-hee, so what can we expect from this latest round of talks? There must be some things both sides were looking to discuss today.<br /><br /> 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, building a lasting peace with lowered tensions,... and finally improving inter-Korean relations.<br />So, we're expecting Seoul and Pyongyang might have 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 from the North on that as well.<br /> But nothing's for certain... and what we know for sure... is that the delegates did discuss the possible date of next month's summit.<br />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 on

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