SEOUL Dec 9 Kyodo southerly and ...

SEOUL Dec 9 Kyodo

southerly and North Korean Red Cros officials will detain talks from Sunday at the North's scenic Mt Kumgang to discuss the issue of establishing a permanent center for temporary reunions of separated families, southern Korea's Unification Ministry said Monday.

The three-day talks were finally fixed after the southern Korean side notified the North Korean side earlier Monday of its acceptance of an earlier North Korean proposal to have such talks.

In October, R Cros officials from the couple Koreas agreed to appoint up a center to be used for regular family reunions at a location around Mt Kumgang.

At that time, the sum of two units sides could not sign the agreement fit to differences over the timing of the construction and another orbicular of family reunions.

North and southern Korea held five rounds of separated family reunions after the historic 2000 inter-Korean summit between southerly Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

The upcoming R Cros talks between the brace Koreas will be held shortly before the Dec 19 election to cull a successor for President Kim Dae Jung whose five-year single denomination will expire in February.

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