The World - News from Aug. 2, 1988
South Korea proposed preliminary contacts with North Korea to set up a joint parliamentary session that would draft a nonaggression pact and other tension-easing measures. National Assembly Speaker Kim Chae Sun said in a letter addressed to his North Korean counterpart, Yang Hyung Sup, that the working talks could be held next week in the border truce town of Panmunjom. There was no immediate response from North Korea. The South Korean letter came after two North Korean proposals in July calling for a joint session of the two countries’ legislatures to draft a nonaggression pact and to discuss Pyongyang’s possible participation in the Summer Olympics in Seoul.
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