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View all search resultsKoreas agree to meeting in bid to ease tensions
North and South Korea will meet Sunday at a village straddling their heavily armed border as the sides try to lower tension and restore projects once seen as symbols of their rapprochement, officials said
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orth and South Korea will meet Sunday at a village straddling their heavily armed border as the sides try to lower tension and restore projects once seen as symbols of their rapprochement, officials said.
The North delivered its agreement Saturday to hold talks at Panmunjom through a Red Cross line restored a day earlier, a Unification Ministry official in Seoul said, speaking on condition of anonymity citing official policy.
Another official confirmed the North's acceptance of Seoul's proposal to change the venue to the Panmunjom border village from the North Korean border city of Kaesong which Pyongyang favored earlier.
The agreement to hold the first government-level talks on the peninsula since early 2011 is the latest sign that tension is easing between the countries after Pyongyang threatened to attack South Korea and the United States with nuclear missiles earlier this year.
It also comes as President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in California. Xi late last month met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's special envoy in Beijing and received a statement from him that Pyongyang was willing to return to dialogue with all parties.
