ROK president meets DPRK delegation in Seoul

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(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-23 12:04

The DPRK delegation led by Kim Ki-nam (R2), a Workers' Party Central Committee secretary most frequently included in DPRK's leader Kim Jong-il's entourage in public activities, pay respects to ROK's late president Kim Dae-jung in Seoul, capital of South Korea, August 21, 2009. The six-member delegation arrived here on Friday and headed straight to a memorial altar set up for ex-president Kim at the National Assembly.[Xinhua ]

Talks between President Lee Myung-bak and the visiting high-level DPRK delegation were held at the president's office.

The 30-minute talks were attended by DPRK delegates, including DPRK leader Kim Jong-iL's close aides Kim Ki Nam and Kim Yang Gon, and South Korean Unification Minister Hyun In-taek.

"(The meeting) went very well," Kim Ki Nam told reporters right after the talks.

South Korea's presidential office said the meeting with the DPRK was part of the protocol for foreign delegates to Kim's funeral with the president scheduled to later meet with envoys from 10 other countries .

The DPRK "special envoys" arrived in Seoul Friday with a plan to stay two days, but later delayed their schedule by one day in pursuit of a meeting with South Korean president.

The delegation was due to leave Seoul at 11 am to return to Pyongyang on a special flight, an official at South Korea's unification ministry said.

ROK's unification minister Hyun In-taek (R) meets with Kim Yang-gon, head of the DPRK's Workers' Party unification front department, from Pyongyang on Saturday in the first high-level cross-border contact in nearly two years. [Xinhua]

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