Korean Talks Reportedly Set
The presidents of the two Koreas will hold a summit in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on July 25, a South Korean government official said today, adding that details still must be worked out.
South Korea’s Kim Young Sam and North Korea’s Kim Il Sung will be the first Korean presidents to meet since the peninsula was divided into the Communist North and capitalist South in 1945.
The official monitoring talks at the border village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas said there are differences of opinion over a second round of summit talks.
He said the South wants to set a date and venue for a second round of talks during today’s inter-Korean talks while the North wants to work out details of a second meeting only after the first summit had taken place.
Some Seoul officials are cautious about whether a summit will actually be held because all past summit proposals have failed.
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