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Inter-Korean Red Cross Talks Held
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Pyongyang, August 28 (KCNA) -- The north-south Red Cross talks took place at Mt. Kumgang resort from August 26 to 28. Present at the talks from the north side were members of the delegation headed by Choe Song Ik, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society, and from the south side members of the delegation with Kim Yong Chol, secretary general of the south Korean Red Cross, as chief delegate. At the talks, both sides decided to arrange the reunion of separated families and their relatives in the north and the south between September 26 and October 1, the event which had been agreed to hold on the coming Harvest Moon Day, and reached an agreement on the technical matters concerning it. The north and the south also agreed to pursue consultations about Red Cross humanitarian issues including the issue of separated families and their relatives in the north and the south from the standpoint of developing the inter-Korean relations. |
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