The two Koreas will hold a working-level meeting next week as a preliminary step to cross-border governmental talks in either Seoul or Pyongyang.
 
Seoul's Unification Ministry announced Friday that it accepted North Korea's offer to hold the meeting on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjeom next Thursday. 
 
North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea on Friday morning sent the proposal through the truce village.
 
The South Korean government explained that the North's offer came in response to the South's three previous proposals for a working-level meeting.
 
The upcoming coordination meeting and eventual inter-Korean talks follow August’s cross-border meeting, where the two sides agreed to ease border tension and called for holding government level meetings in one of the capital cities.