Koreas Agree to Reopen Border Offices
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SEOUL — North and South Korea agreed today to reopen their suspended border liaison offices and hold regular high-level talks as part of efforts to implement agreements reached at the June summit of their leaders, a South Korean official said.
The agreement was the first sign of progress reported at Cabinet-level talks that opened today in Seoul. Details on this and other subjects will be discussed before the North Korean delegation leaves Seoul on Monday, officials said.
“The talks got off to a good start amid a very friendly atmosphere unparalleled in the past,” said Kim Sun Kyu, a South Korean delegate.
A proposed visit to Seoul by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and inter-Korea military and economic exchanges and cooperation are expected to be discussed, Kim said.
The Koreas have been bitter Cold War enemies since the division of their peninsula into the communist North and the capitalist South in 1945. Their three-year war in the early 1950s ended in an armistice, not in a peace treaty.
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