Koreas to discuss denuclearisation steps

SEOUL: North Korea and South Korea have agreed to hold highlevel interKorea talks today to discuss steps needed to uphold the pledge to denuclearise the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said.

The meeting will discuss specific plans needed to carry out the April 27 interKorea summit declaration, which includes pledges to finally end a sevendecade war this year, and pursue ‘‘complete denuclearisation’’.

‘‘The South and North will hold a highlevel interKorea meeting on May 16 in the Peace House in Panmunjom, to discuss implementation of Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula,’’ the Unification Ministry said.

The meeting would be the latest in a series of actions taken by North Korea that have spurred hopes the sevendecade conflict on the Korean Peninsula may be coming to an end.

North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear bomb test site for some time between May 23 and 25 in order to uphold its pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, the country’s state media reported on Saturday, a month ahead of a planned North KoreaUS summit in Singapore.

South Korean journalists have been invited to witness the dismantling of the North Korean nuclear test site.

North Korea would invite South Korean reporters from one news agency and one television broadcaster to observe the dismantling of a nuclear test site, along with other foreign media, , the Ministry of Unification said. — Reuters