South and North Korean lexicographers will meet next week in Dalian in China’s Liaoning Province and discuss details of an inter-Korean project to create a joint dictionary.
 
The 23 members of the South-North dictionary compilation committee will meet from next Monday to Sunday and review the drafts produced by each side on about 20-thousand words to be included in the dictionary.
 
Also at the upcoming meeting, the two sides are expected to discuss efforts to adopt a joint declaration on restoring affinity between the two Koreas.  
 
During their last meeting in October at the North’s Mount Geumgang resort, South Korean participants stressed the need to adopt such a joint declaration upon the 10th anniversary of the launch of the joint dictionary project.
 
However, the North only said that further discussions are needed on the matter.
 
The dictionary project was launched in 2006 but was suspended in late 2009 due to strained inter-Korean relations. The two sides resumed the project in July last year.
 
The two Koreas plan to complete by 2019 a joint dictionary that will contain about 330-thousand words.