Working-level Contact Between North and South
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Kaesong, July 28 (KCNA) -- A working-level contact concerning August 15 north-south football matches for reunification was held in Kaesong on July 26 and 28. At the contact the north and the south noted that leader Kim Jong Il received the chairperson of Hyundai Group and the vice-chairman of Hyundai Asan of south Korea and complied with the request of Minister of Unification Jong Dong Yong offered through them, thus making it possible to hold August 15 north-south football matches for reunification on the occasion of the significant 60th anniversary of the liberation of Korea.
At the contact both sides consulted practical matters concerning the football matches and adopted an agreement.
According to the agreement, a men's football match will be held in Seoul on August 14 and a women' football match on August 16.
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