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North Korea offered to hold high-level talks with South Korea in Seoul later this month, officials said in Seoul Thursday.
The offer of four-day talks from January 21 came in response to Seoul's earlier proposal that the cabinet-level meeting should be held from January 14 to discuss inter-Korean rapprochement and other pending issues.
"North Korea today sent a counter-proposal to hold inter-Korean talks January 21 to 24," a South Korean unification ministry official told AFP.
The talks are expected to cover the ongoing nuclear standoff between North Korea and the United States, officials in the South have said previously.
(China Daily January 9, 2003)
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