South Korea on Friday accepted the working-level contact proposal by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Seoul's Unification Ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs said in a statement that it accepted the DPRK offer to hold working-level talks on Nov. 26 at the Tongil House, an administrative building on the north side of the truce village of Panmunjom.
The DPRK's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) sent the proposal notice earlier in the day to South Korea's Unification Ministry, which in turn sent a consent notice to the DPRK.
The ministry said that the two sides will discuss comprehensive working-level issues during the upcoming contact for an inter-governmental dialogue, upon which the two Koreas agreed in late August.
Top-level military advisors to South Korean President Park Geun-hye and top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un agreed on Aug. 25 to hold an inter-governmental dialogue at an earliest possible date in Seoul or Pyongyang.
The Aug. 25 agreement came as tensions soared on the Korean peninsula after landmine blasts in border areas and a rare exchange of fire across the border.
On the dialogue table during the working-level contact would be the timing, venue, agenda and the rank of chief representatives from the two sides for the inter-governmental talks.
