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S. Korea stresses importance of carrying out Aug. 25 agreement with DPRK

Xinhua, September 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday stressed the importance of carrying out the agreement, reached on Aug. 25 with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after high-ranking talks, for peace and reunification between the two Koreas, the presidential office said.

Park said during a cabinet meeting that if the inter-Korean agreement, which was reached with difficulty, is carried out smoothly, South Korea and the DPRK can go toward a path to cooperation for peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula and cutting off the vicious circle of tensions that have lasted in the past 70 years.

The president said the agreement was reached last week after marathon talks under situations that put at risk the people's safety and national security.

During last week's marathon talks, chief military aides to President Park and top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un agreed to de- escalate military tensions on the peninsula and hold inter- governmental talks in Seoul or Pyongyang at an earliest possible date.

The two Koreas also agreed to have working-level Red Cross talks next Monday for the reunion of Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

Given the preparation period of about a month, the reunion event was expected to be held in early October. The two Koreas tended to hold such a humanitarian event during traditional holidays like Chuseok holiday that falls in late September this year.

President Park said that she hoped the curing of pains of the separated families by holding the reunion event as planned, expressing her wish to widely open a passage to exchanges between the separated families. South Korea has expressed hopes to regularly hold the reunion event, which had failed to be held when inter-Korean relations were strained. Endi