South Korea and North Korea are set to hold a working-level contact on Thursday to discuss the details: timing, venue and agenda -- for inter-governmental talks.
The preparatory meeting for a ministerial-level dialogue will take place at the Tongil House, an administrative building on the north side of the truce village of Panmunjom, Xinhua news agency reported.
The three-member South Korean delegation is led by Kim Ki-Woong, chief of the unification ministry's special office for inter-Korean talks.
His North Korean counterpart is Hwang Chol, a director of the secretariat at the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea in charge of inter-Korean affairs.
"I'll do my best to sincerely implement the agreements reached during the high-level talks (in August)," Kim said.
During the meeting, the two sides will discuss the timing, venue, agenda and the rank of representatives for inter-governmental talks, which the two Koreas agreed in August to hold in Seoul or Pyongyang at an earliest date possible.
The last ministerial-level talks between the two Koreas were held in Pyongyang from February 27th to March 2nd in 2007 and in Seoul from May 29th to June 1st in the same year.