Two Koreas hold talks on medical cooperation on Wednesday
- 6 years ago
Delegations from the two Koreas are meeting at the joint liaison office in North Korea's border town of Gaeseong today to discuss cooperation on health and medical care.
It's the first such joint move in eleven years.
Oh Jung-hee tells us more.
Just as agreed at the inter-Korean summit in September,... South and North Korea are moving to strengthen their cooperation on health and medical care.
Senior health officials from Seoul and Pyeongyang are meeting on Wednesday at the joint liaison office in Gaeseong.
From the South, Vice Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol is leading a three-member delegation,... as is the North's Pak Myong-su, who heads Pyeongyang's hygiene agency.
"The government expects this to be an opportunity for a broad discussion by the two Koreas about matters of interest in establishing a system to counter epidemics together... and about general health and medical care."
At their September summit, the leaders of South and North agreed to expand cooperation in health and medical care... including setting up emergency measures to prevent the spread of epidemics.
And Wednesday's talks are expected to be about just that.
This is the first time they're meeting about that topic in 11 years.
After the second inter-Korean summit back in 2007, the two Koreas had agreed on a few specific items to work on in the field, like building factories to make medical supplies, controlling epidemics and conducting surveys.
Later that year they had a working-level meeting... and conducted a survey the year after that,... but the projects couldn't go on after South Korea adopted its own unilateral sanctions against the North in 2010... in response to the regime's sinking of a South Korean warship.
Oh Jung-hee, Arirang News.
It's the first such joint move in eleven years.
Oh Jung-hee tells us more.
Just as agreed at the inter-Korean summit in September,... South and North Korea are moving to strengthen their cooperation on health and medical care.
Senior health officials from Seoul and Pyeongyang are meeting on Wednesday at the joint liaison office in Gaeseong.
From the South, Vice Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol is leading a three-member delegation,... as is the North's Pak Myong-su, who heads Pyeongyang's hygiene agency.
"The government expects this to be an opportunity for a broad discussion by the two Koreas about matters of interest in establishing a system to counter epidemics together... and about general health and medical care."
At their September summit, the leaders of South and North agreed to expand cooperation in health and medical care... including setting up emergency measures to prevent the spread of epidemics.
And Wednesday's talks are expected to be about just that.
This is the first time they're meeting about that topic in 11 years.
After the second inter-Korean summit back in 2007, the two Koreas had agreed on a few specific items to work on in the field, like building factories to make medical supplies, controlling epidemics and conducting surveys.
Later that year they had a working-level meeting... and conducted a survey the year after that,... but the projects couldn't go on after South Korea adopted its own unilateral sanctions against the North in 2010... in response to the regime's sinking of a South Korean warship.
Oh Jung-hee, Arirang News.