SEOUL • North Korea announced yesterday that Mr Ri Son Gwon, its point man on inter-Korean affairs, will head its delegation for the high-level meeting with South Korea tomorrow..
SEOUL • North Korea announced yesterday that Mr Ri Son Gwon, its point man on inter-Korean affairs, will head its delegation for the high-level meeting with South Korea tomorrow.
Mr Ri is chairman of North Korea’s Committee for Peaceful Reunification (CPRC), a state-run agency handling inter-Korean affairs, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said yesterday, delivering the notification it received after the inter-Korean communications hotline began at 9.30am.
The North’s message comes a day after the South offered to send a five-member delegation led by Unification Minister Cho Myoung Gyon to the talks scheduled for tomorrow.
Both sides agreed last Friday to hold their first official dialogue in more than two years at the border village of Panmunjom.
Mr Ri had spoken on behalf of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un when announcing last Wednesday Pyongyang’s willingness to restore the inter-Korean hotline.
The South Korean delegation will include two deputy ministers from the Unification Ministry and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the vice-president of games planning for the Pyeongchang Organising Committee.
