KOREAN UNITY A STEP NEARER
(N.Z-PA.-Reuter—Copyright) SEOUL, November 7. North and South Korea, already seeking through the Red Cross, to reunite families, have agreed on an important extension of contracts to all fields of their national life, in a step towards eventual unification.
The agreement came at a two-day meeting in Pyongyang of a joint co-ordinating committee, the official channel established to implement the rapprochement accord announced on July 4 and pledging independent Korean efforts towards unification. Senior Government representatives on the co-ordinat-ing committee signed and exchanged, with immediate effect, a document of agreement. It says that the co-ordinat-ting committee will now decide on ways to carry oul extensive exchanges between political parties, social organisations. and individual leaders, and will also arrange economic, cultural, and social exchanges, and “the concerted steps both sides will
take in external activities to enhance national pride in the homogeneous nation.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19721108.2.63
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33068, 8 November 1972, Page 9
Word Count
146KOREAN UNITY A STEP NEARER Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33068, 8 November 1972, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in