PYONGYANG, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The Red Cross organizations of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and South Korea have agreed to arrange two video meetings of separated families and relatives this autumn, the official KCNA news agency reported Friday.
One of the video meetings will be on Aug. 15 and the other on the Harvest Moon Day, according to the agreement between the DPRK delegation led by Choe Song Ik, vice chairman of the central committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society, and the South Korean delegation headed by Jang Sok Jun, secretary general of South Korea's Red Cross Society.
The two sides agreed to boost Red Cross humanitarian undertakings in the spirit of the June 15 joint declaration at the eighth inter-Korean Red Cross talks, held Tuesday through Friday at the Mt. Kumgang Resort.
They agreed to arrange for the 16th reunion of separated families and relatives on the Harvest Moon Day, and exchange image letters of separated families and relatives "on an experimental basis."
An agreement was also reached on further talks concerning the whereabouts of those who went missing during and after the Korean War.