남북간 365일 24시간 소통채널 생긴다... 개성 공동연락사무소 14일 개소<br /><br /> On Friday, at the Kaesong Industrial Complex north of the border, Seoul and Pyeongyang's joint liaison office will officially be open.<br />Oh Jung-hee starts things off with a welcome follow-through on a part of the Panmunjom Declaration signed by the leaders of the two Koreas. <br /> A contact office that enables communication between the two Koreas twenty-four-seven, all year round.<br />For the first time in history, South and North Korea will be running a joint liaison office together... and it will be within the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a factory park the two Koreas ran together until February 2016.<br />The grand opening will take place on Friday with 50 to 60 attendees from each side of the border.<br /> South Korea's unification minister Cho Myoung-gyon and his North Korean counterpart, Ri Son-gwon who heads the North's reunification committee, will be signing and exchanging an agreement on running the contact office.<br /><br /> "The office will be in charge of overseeing constant contact between the two Koreas, discussions for inter-Korean talks and providing support for civilian exchanges. Officials from the land, forest, and culture ministries will also be staying."<br /><br /> Vice ministerial-level officials from the two Koreas will be heading the office.<br />South Korea will be appointing the vice unification minister Chun Hae-sung as its head... and North Korea plans to appoint its vice-head of the reunification committee as Chun's counterpart.<br /> They will serve as representatives whenever meetings take place.<br />15 to 20 officials each from Seoul and Pyeongyang will be at the contact office.<br /><br /> "The joint liaison office will become an ordinary communication channel for improving inter-Korean relations, lowering military tensions and bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula. We expect it will contribute to keeping inter-Korean relations stable and helping North Korea-U.S. nuclear negotiations."<br /><br /> The joint liaison office can serve as the foundation for sustainable and institutionalized inter-Korean relations.<br /> Seoul says the two Koreas aim to ultimately set up resident representative offices in each other's capitals.<br />Oh Jung-hee, Arirang News. <br />
