DPRK Red Cross Chief Proposes His S. Korean Counterpart to Have Working Contact

Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- The chairman of the Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society Wednesday sent a notice to the president of the Red Cross of south Korea proposing to have a north-south Red Cross working contact to discuss and settle the issue of the four inhabitants of the DPRK detained in south Korea.
The DPRK side, repeatedly urging the repatriation of all its detained inhabitants on March 7, proposed having a north-south Red Cross working contact for confirming through a face-to-face meeting the intentions of the four inhabitants the south Korean authorities claimed expressed their will to "defect to the south, " the notice said, adding:
As regards this proposal, the south side clarified several times its stand that if 27 people are sent back, to begin with, it will be possible to have a north-south working contact to discuss the issue of confirming the intentions of the four people at a face-to-face meeting and allow the north side to directly meet them.
Now that 27 people came back home, the DPRK side proposed the south Korean side to have the inter-Korean Red Cross working contact to discuss and settle at an early date the issue of confirming the intentions of the four people through a face-to-face meeting and repatriating them at the conference room of the former Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission at Panmunjom at 10 a.m. on April 6.