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N. Korea highlights improving relations with South at U.N. meeting
By Kim Hyun
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korea told a recent meeting of a U.N. organization that it will continue reconciliatory efforts toward the South and emphasized that the two sides' relations are improving, Pyongyang's media said Wednesday.
After a months-long boycott of inter-Korean dialogue and nuclear and missile
tests, North Korea switched to softened diplomacy in August, agreeing to talks
and sending high-level envoys to mourn the death of a former South Korean
president.
The Koreas were holding their latest round of talks on Wednesday to prevent flash
floods along a river that runs across their border.
"North-South relations on the Korean Peninsula are are entering a new phase, in
which moves have been made to bring together their views on the June 15 joint
declaration and the October 4 declaration, which are landmarks for their better
relations and reunification in the new century," an unidentified North Korean
delegate said at the UNESCO general meeting on Friday. His remarks were carried
by the Korean Central Broadcasting Station, a state-run radio network.
The joint declarations were issued at the two inter-Korean summits in 2000 and 2007.
North Korea also vowed to "make all efforts" for reconciliation, the report said.
In a related dispatch on Wednesday, the North's major newspaper Rodong Sinmun
called on South Korea to resume tourism projects that Seoul suspended amid
chilling relations last year. South Korean tours to the North's Mount Kumgang and
the ancient capital of Kaesong had been profitable for the North, and its need
for cash has become greater since the U.N. tightened financial sanctions on the
country over its nuclear and missile tests earlier this year.
"It is the unwavering will of our republic to proactively realize reconciliation,
unity, cooperation and exchanges according to the joint declarations," the paper
of the Workers' Party said in a commentary.
The 35th UNESCO general assembly opened at its headquarters in Paris on Oct. 6
with 193 member states and 6 associate members. Some 4,000 people are
participating in the meeting that continues until Oct. 23.
The North Korean delegate said his country will "further strengthen and develop
friendship" with UNESCO and member states, the report said. The North also
supported UNESCO's moves to adopt a declaration on cultural objects displaced
during World War II, it added.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korea told a recent meeting of a U.N. organization that it will continue reconciliatory efforts toward the South and emphasized that the two sides' relations are improving, Pyongyang's media said Wednesday.
After a months-long boycott of inter-Korean dialogue and nuclear and missile
tests, North Korea switched to softened diplomacy in August, agreeing to talks
and sending high-level envoys to mourn the death of a former South Korean
president.
The Koreas were holding their latest round of talks on Wednesday to prevent flash
floods along a river that runs across their border.
"North-South relations on the Korean Peninsula are are entering a new phase, in
which moves have been made to bring together their views on the June 15 joint
declaration and the October 4 declaration, which are landmarks for their better
relations and reunification in the new century," an unidentified North Korean
delegate said at the UNESCO general meeting on Friday. His remarks were carried
by the Korean Central Broadcasting Station, a state-run radio network.
The joint declarations were issued at the two inter-Korean summits in 2000 and 2007.
North Korea also vowed to "make all efforts" for reconciliation, the report said.
In a related dispatch on Wednesday, the North's major newspaper Rodong Sinmun
called on South Korea to resume tourism projects that Seoul suspended amid
chilling relations last year. South Korean tours to the North's Mount Kumgang and
the ancient capital of Kaesong had been profitable for the North, and its need
for cash has become greater since the U.N. tightened financial sanctions on the
country over its nuclear and missile tests earlier this year.
"It is the unwavering will of our republic to proactively realize reconciliation,
unity, cooperation and exchanges according to the joint declarations," the paper
of the Workers' Party said in a commentary.
The 35th UNESCO general assembly opened at its headquarters in Paris on Oct. 6
with 193 member states and 6 associate members. Some 4,000 people are
participating in the meeting that continues until Oct. 23.
The North Korean delegate said his country will "further strengthen and develop
friendship" with UNESCO and member states, the report said. The North also
supported UNESCO's moves to adopt a declaration on cultural objects displaced
during World War II, it added.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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