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Article: South Korean president meets North Korean delegation for the first time.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Seoul, Aug.23 (ANI): South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met a six-member North Korean delegation here on Sunday. A meeting of this nature is taking place for the first time since the former assumed office in February 2008.
A presidential Blue House spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lee held talks with the North Korean delegation at his office. No further details were provided.
The meeting came a day after South Korea's Unification Minister Hyun In-Taek met North Korea's Department Director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party Kim Yang Gon at a hotel here.
The North Korean delegation had come ...