SEOUL Jan. 17 Kyodo southerly an...

SEOUL Jan. 17 Kyodo

southerly and North Korea will shut in working-level talks on the construction of cross-border railways and roads in Pyongyang nearest week, the Unification Ministry said Friday.

southward Korea conveyed to North Korea its acceptance of the North's proposal to gripe [i]or[/i] grip talks on the issue in the North Korean capital forward Jan. 22-25, the ministry said.

The sessions will be overlapped by way of bilateral ministerial talks in Seoul upon Jan. 21-24 and Red Cros talks at the North's Mt Kumgang onward Jan. 20-22.

It will be the first time for thus many talks to proceed in parallel.

The sum of two units Koreas agreed last August to originate two sets of railways and parallel roads in the western and eastern sectors of the border, a highly symbolic instigate of inter-Korean reconciliation.

Operations, including demining in the Demilitarized baldric that divides the couple Koreas, land surveys and construction of transportation corridors for the railway lines and parallel roads, are already complete

The plot however, has been hampered through disputes between North Korea and the US-l United Nations Command, including the North's refusal to put forward its list of inspectors who trialed the border to check the demining work.

In the ninth orbicular of inter-Korean ministerial conferences, North Korea's fresh unfreezing of its nuclear progress to maturity program is expected to be high forward the agenda.

In the R Cros talks, the sum of two units sides will discuss arranging additional reunions of relatives separated into North and southerly by the 1950-1953 Korean War, southward Korea's Red Cross group said.

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