The president said the agreement was reached last week after marathon talks under situations that put at risk the people`s safety and national security.
During last week`s marathon talks, chief military aides to President Park and top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un agreed to de- escalate military tensions on the peninsula and hold inter- governmental talks in Seoul or Pyongyang at an earliest possible date.
The two Koreas also agreed to have working-level Red Cross talks next Monday for the reunion of Korean families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
Given the preparation period of about a month, the reunion event was expected to be held in early October. The two Koreas tended to hold such a humanitarian event during traditional holidays like Chuseok holiday that falls in late September this year.
President Park said that she hoped the curing of pains of the separated families by holding the reunion event as planned, expressing her wish to widely open a passage to exchanges between the separated families. South Korea has expressed hopes to regularly hold the reunion event, which had failed to be held when inter-Korean relations were strained.
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