South and North Korea are meeting at the truce village on Thursday morning to arrange high-level dialogue in Seoul or Pyongyang.
  
Thursday's working-level talks are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. on North Korea’s side of the truce village of Panmunjom. 

The South Korean delegation left Seoul at 8 a.m. The head of the Ministry of Unification's special office for inter-Korean dialogue, Kim Ki-woong, told reporters before leaving that he will do his best.
 
[Sound bite: Kim Ki-woong (Korean)]
“[We] will do our best to faithfully implement the agreements made at the cross-border talks in August.”
 
Kim is leading South Korea's three-member delegation.
 
Minister of Unification Hong Yong-pyo told the delegation before it left that he hopes there will be good results.
 
He also told reporters Seoul will try to keep the momentum from the agreements reached between South and North Korea in August. He added Seoul will try and achieve results acceptable to the public.

At the truce village talks three months ago, the two Koreas decided to ease tensions at the demilitarized zone and agreed to hold high-level governmental talks in Seoul or Pyongyang as soon as they could. 
 
The North Korean delegation will be represented by Hwang Chol, a senior official at the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland charged with inter-Korean affairs. 
 
At the coordination meeting, the two sides will discuss the timing, place, format and agenda of the high-level dialogue. 
 
The ranking of officials to lead those talks is likely to be a contentious issue.
 
South Korea prefers a meeting between its unification minister and the North's director of the United Front Department. But Pyongyang is expected to propose a senior official of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland as Minister of Unification Hong's counterpart.
 
South Korea is also expected to place priority on resolving the issue of separated families, while the North is expected focus on resuming tourism to Mount Geumgang.