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Inter-Korean Working-level Talks Close

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Kaesong, May 19 (KCNA) -- The working-level talks between the north and south authorities, which opened in Kaesong on May 16, closed today. At the talks our side pointed to the principled issues of fundamental significance in tiding over the abnormal situation beclouding the prospect of inter-Korean relations and developing them in the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration.
    Our side underlined the need for the south side to have the stand of developing the inter-Korean relations in the idea of by our nation itself and on the principle of national cooperation, free from the outdated viewpoint of negating our bedrock, pursuing the showdown between the systems and attaching importance to cooperation with outside forces as evidenced by its action to prevent a civilian memorial delegation from visiting Pyongyang in July last year. At the talks both sides adopted a joint press release after agreeing on it.
    According to the joint press release, the north and the south agreed to have a working-level consultation for actively cooperating in the efforts to dispatch delegations of the authorities of the two sides each headed by a minister-level official to a great festival for national reunification to be held in Pyongyang on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration so that the event may proceed in an atmosphere of reconciliation and cooperation. Both sides also decided to have the 15th north-south ministerial talks in Seoul from June 21 to 24 and push ahead with cooperation from a humanitarian@and compatriotic stand.