SEOUL, April 23 (Xinhuanet) -- S. Korea's Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan and DPRK's parliamentary leader Kim Yong-nam met Saturday on the sidelines of the Asian-African Summit in Jakarta and agreed to restart the stalled inter-Korean dialogue, Yonhap reported.

    The South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) should try to cooperate with each other, Kim Yong-nam, chairman of the DPRK's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly,was quoted as saying after meeting with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan.

    "If the environment of the six-nation talks is fully mature, giving a cause to uphold, we will reply to the talks," South Korean press officer Lee Kang-jin quoted Kim as saying.

    The two leaders also agreed on the need to resume talks between the two sides, Lee said.

    The two leaders, who are in Jakarta attending the Asian and African Summit, met at the Jakarta Convention Center at ll:40 a.m.(local time).

    It was the highest-level contact between the two sides since their top leaders, then-South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and DPRK leader Kim Jong-il, met in the DPRK's capital Pyongyang in June 2000, according to Yonhap. Enditem