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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Seoul and Pyongyang will meet to ease tension on the peninsula

North Korea and South Korea agreed to hold working-level talks on Sunday in the border village of Panmunjom, after months of tension, said Seoul. The two Koreas agreed to send three delegates each to Panmunjom, a traditional meeting on its border, for preparatory discussions of high-level negotiations, reported the South Korean Unification Ministry. North Korea announced Friday the reopening of the telephone line between the North and the South , cut in March, and proposed a meeting of lower-level contact for this weekend, in response to the South Korean proposal to hold a ministerial meeting in Seoul next week. South Korea quickly responded to the North Korean proposal but suggested that it is carried out in the industrial city of Kaesongas proposed by Pyongyang, but in the village of Panmunjom. Called "Peace Village" Panmunjom is the border town through which passes the telephone line that allows the Red Cross, in an emergency, a communication between the governments of both countries have no diplomatic relations. The phone line was restored at 05.00 GMT on Saturday, said the Committee on the Peaceful Reconciliation of Korea, in a statement quoted by the official news agency KCNA.From this moment, the North-South relations will enter a state of war and all issues arising between North and South will be handled accordingly , "said a statement released by the official news agency of North Korea,  KCNA, March 29 this yearSince that statement until the announcement of a diplomatic meeting,  the threat of a nuclear attack by the North Korean communist regime were constant and included also the repeated launch short-range missiles. 

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