Press Release (February 3, 2010)
With regard to the next round of inter-Korean working-level meeting on tourism to Mt. Geumgang and the GIC
l Late yesterday afternoon the Asia Pacific Peace Committee (APPC) delivered the
Ministry of Unification a notification that it accepted our proposal to have a working-level meeting on tourism to Mt. Geumgang and the Gaesung Industrial Complex in Gaesung.
- According to the notification, the DPRK authority will deploy 3 delegates led by a member of the APPC to the meeting.
l In response, the DPRK government sent a reply in the name of the Unification Ministry to the United Front Department of North Korea this afternoon.
- We emphasized that a high-ranking official from the DPRK authority should be a leader of the North delegation for the next working-level meeting so that North and South Korea could discuss issues related security guarantee for tourists and urged the North to inform us of the list of its delegation.
Ministry of Unification