S Korea, DPRK wrap up meeting at joint venture
09:20, 12 June 2009
SEOUL. June 12. KAZINFORM The government-level talks between South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), held at the Kaesong Joint Industrial Complex, ended on Thursday amid escalated tensions on the Korean Peninsula; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The DPRK representatives offered to the South Korean side to meet again on June 19, which the South accepted, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said.
The two sides met twice in the day, for 50 minutes in the morning and 40 minutes in the afternoon, following up the talks they had in April.
During the meeting, the DPRK is known to request a hike in their workers' salary to almost four-fold the current term, 300 U.S. dollars a month, according to Yonhap.
The DPRK also demanded to raise the land fee to 500 million U.S. dollars, some 51 times the current level, Yonhap said, quoting an official.
As for the issue of a South Korean worker, who has been detained in the DPRK since March for "publicly denouncing the regime," the DPRK did not respond to the South Korean side in detail, Yonhap added; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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