SEOUL, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- North and South Korea Thursday agreed to resume high-level talks suspended over nuclear and missile tensions, Seoul officials said.
The agreement was reached during working-level talks at the North Korean border city of Kaesong, which were held on the back of Tuesday's ground-breaking nuclear deal.
"In the basic spirit of the June 15 joint (summit) declaration (in 2000), South and North Korea confirmed their will to promote the inter-Korean relationship and agreed to hold the 20th ministerial talks in Pyongyang from Feb. 27 to March 2," said a joint statement.
The ministerial talks, the highest-level dialogue channel to coordinate cross-border reconciliation and cooperation since the 2000 summit, had been suspended amid the tension over communist North Korea's missile tests in July followed by its nuclear weapon test in October.
