남북, 11월말~12월초 철도•도로 착공식 한다... 산림•보건의료•체육회담 줄줄이<br /><br />The two Koreas held their fifth round of high-level talks of the year today at the truce village of Panmunjeom, and they've issued their joint press statement just now.<br />For the details of that, let's connect live to our unification ministry correspondent Oh Jung-hee, who's standing by at the Office for Inter-Korean Dialogue.<br />Jung-hee, what's in the statement?<br /><br />Devin, a slew of action plans for South and North Korea once again... and a number of dates set for various inter-Korean talks.<br />Let me just walk you through it.<br />First of all, the ground-breaking ceremony that marks the start of construction work to connect railways and roads between the two Koreas... is happening for real.<br />Seoul and Pyeongyang signed off on holding the ceremony in late November or early December.<br />That means, they're going to start the construction.<br />They will be conducting joint inspections on the western railroads starting later this month, and the eastern railroads, early next month.<br />They will be exchanging documents to coordinate on road inspections as well.<br /><br />And a series of inter-Korean talks will take place later this month at the Gaeseong joint liaison office -- on forestry cooperation, medical care and sports exchanges.<br />Those will cover controlling diseases and pests, modernizing tree nurseries, preventing epidemics,... and forming joint teams for the 2020 Summer Olympics,... while launching a joint bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics.<br />Seoul and Pyeongyang will also be holding Red Cross Talks next month at North Korea's Mount Geumgang... to discuss opening a permanent facility for war-torn families to meet... as well as enabling video meetings and video messages.<br />Generals from the two sides will also be holding talks as soon as possible to discuss running a joint inter-Korean military committee that works to cease hostilities at the demilitarized zone.<br />Meanwhile, Seoul and Pyeongyang will continue communicating to fine-tune the details for a North Korean art troupe's concert in Seoul this month -- something that was fixed for sure through the summit agreement last month.<br /><br />That's all I have for now, but the Unification Minister is briefing reporters on the details of the press statement today, so I'll have more updates for our later newscasts.<br />Devin. <br />
