SEPARATED KOREANS
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SEOUL, Aug. 31. The South Korean Red Cross today accepted a North Korean Red Cross counter-proposal to meet on September 20 at Panmunjom for prelinmary talks on the fate of an estimated 10 million Koreans separated since 1945, the Associated Press reported. Dr Choi Doo-sun, president of the South Korean Red Cross, accepted the North Korean suggestion in a letter he wrote to his North Korean counterpart, Mr Son Songpil. The text of the letter was released today. ' The South Korean Red Cross originally proposed September 28 as a date for the preliminary talks to discuss procedural matters for a full-fledged conference on the separated families.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32700, 1 September 1971, Page 17
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