The two Koreas have resumed the afternoon session of a meeting of their joint committee on managing the Gaeseong Industrial Complex.
 
Prior to starting the talks in the morning session on Thursday, South Korea's chief delegate Lee Sang-min greeted his North Korean counterpart, saying he hoped the meeting would bring long-awaited rain to the arid inter-Korea relations.
 
In response, the North’s chief delegate Pak Chol-su expressed a similar sentiment, hoping that the meeting would act like rain that comes after a drought for businesspeople who seek the revitalization of the Gaeseong park and for the Korean people who are praying for advancement in inter-Korean ties.
 
A Unification Ministry official said that during the 50-minute closed-door morning session, the two sides shared views on the dispute over the minimum wage for Gaeseong workers. The parties are also said to have discussed ways to improve working conditions and issues related to passage, communication and customs at the park.
 
The meeting is the sixth of its kind, taking place more than a year after the last meeting was held in June 2014. The joint committee was established in August 2013 following the adoption of the Agreement on Normalization of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex.