A ministry official told Xinhua news agency over phone that South Korea sent a notice Monday, offering to hold the senior-level dialogue on Oct. 30 at Tongil-gak Pavilion, an administrative building on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmumjeom.
The North had yet to respond to the dialogue proposal, the official said, adding that detailed schedules have not been fixed.
On Oct. 4, North Korea agreed to the second-round of senior-level inter-Korean dialogue during the sudden visit of three high- ranking North Korean officials to South Korea for the closing ceremony of the Incheon Asian Games. The North said the South can pick a date for the talks between late October and early November.
The two Koreas held the first high-level talks in February since South Korean President Park Geun-hye took office in February 2013. Since then, no senior-level dialogue has been held.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
