SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- South Korea and the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are to resume general-level military talks on March 2-3, announced South Korea's Defense Ministry on Tuesday.

    The two-day talks will be held at Tongilgak, a pavilion on the DPRK side of the truce village of Panmunjom.

    The two sides are hoped to discuss the issue establishing an area for joint fishing near the disputed inter-Korean western sea border in the Yellow Sea.

    The Northern Limit Line (NLL) was marked after the 1950-1953 Korean War by the United Nations Command. South Korea viewed it as the inter-Korean western sea border, while the DPRK has not accepted the concept.

    The navies of the two sides once had two clashes in 1999 and 2002 around of the NLL waters, which resulted in heavy casualties on both sides.

    South Korea and the DPRK held two rounds of general-level military talks in the Summer of 2004, during which the two sides agreed on a set of measures to defuse tension along the inter-Korean land border. Enditem