Language scholars from the two Koreas will meet in China throughout this week to discuss details of an inter-Korean project to create a joint dictionary.
 
The 23 members of the South-North dictionary compilation committee will meet in Dalian in China’s Liaoning Province from Monday to Sunday and review drafts containing about 20-thousand words produced by each side.
 
The two Koreas plan to complete a 330-thousand-word joint dictionary by 2019.
 
The two sides are also expected to discuss efforts to adopt a joint declaration on restoring affinity between the two Koreas.
 
At their last meeting in October at the North’s Mount Geumgang resort, the 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 discussion on the matter was needed.
 
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.