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Monday, April 20, 2009

Two Koreas agree to meeting

South Korea has accepted a North Korean proposal to discuss a joint industrial park, setting up the first high-level meeting between the two nation for a year.The meeting, which was announced on Sunday, comes amid tensions over Pyongyang's decision to expel nuclear inspectors and restart the Yongbyon reactor.Lee Jong-joo, South Korea's unification ministry spokeswoman, said officials were planning to meet in Kaesong, an industrial complex north of the demiltarised zone which divides the two Koreas, on Tuesday."Our priorities are the security of South Koreans and development of the Kaesong industrial town," she said.Relations between the two countries over the joint development have soured since Lee Myung-Bak, the South Korean Korean president, came to office in February 2008.In December, Pyongyang restricted border crossings and expelled hundreds of South Korean managers from the park, which was once hailed as a model for economic co-operation between the neighbours.

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