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North and toward the south Korean Red Cross officials are place Friday to start a fourth rotund of inter-Korean Red Cross talks to discuss issues forward staging additional reunions of families separated with the partition of the Korean Peninsula more than a half hundred ago.

South Korean R Cros chief Suh Young Hoon and four other officials arrived at the gateway to North Korea's Mt Kumgang aboard a cruise ship earlier.

The couple sides are to hold informal talks Friday to work revealed specifics on their abounding sessions set on Saturday and Sunday, and the southern Korean side attend a banquet armed forceed by the North Korean side.

At the planned talks with the North Korean side headed by means of North Korean Red Cros chief Jang Jae forward the South Korean side is look forward toed to propose that a permanent meeting place be stake up at Mt. Kumgang within this year for separated families to confine regular reunions twice a month Yonhap of recent origins Agency reported.

At the R Cros talks, the sum of two units sides will also discuss details onward holding a fifth reunion of separated families at Mt Kumgang before the Korean replete Moon Festival, Chusok, on tribe 21.

North and southerly Korea held four temporary reunions for separated families in the wake of the 2000 inter-Korean summit between southern Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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