ROK, DPRK start high-level talks at Panmunjom

The two sides agreed to encourage exchanges, cooperation, visits and contacts at all levels to raise the sense of national reconciliation and unity.

To resolve humanitarian issues, Seoul and Pyongyang will hold a reunion of families separated across the inter-Korean border around the Aug 15 Liberation Day, a date to celebrate the Korean Peninsula's liberation from the 1910-45 Japanese colonial rule.

Cho said issues to be discussed for the high-level talks with the DPRK side would be the agendas for Red-Cross talks on the reunion of separated families following the 1950-1953 Korean War, the general-level dialogue on military affairs and the establishment of liaison office of the two Koreas in the DPRK's border town of Kaesong.