North Korea has sent a letter of appeal calling for an improvement in inter-Korean relations to the presidential office and the National Assembly through the truce village of Panmunjom.
 
The Ministry of Unification said on Thursday that Pyongyang sent the appeal addressed to the presidential office, the National Assembly speaker, the ruling Saenuri Party, the main opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy and the Korean Red Cross.
 
The ministry said it will deliver the letters to the recipients on Friday.
 
North Korea adopted the appeal at a joint meeting of the government, party and concerned organizations on Wednesday, calling on South Korea to give up its plan to absorb the North, halt joint military exercises with the United States and to ban leaflet campaigns by civic groups.
 
Regarding the letter, a unification ministry official said the North should stop such one-sided propaganda and respond to Seoul's proposal to hold dialogue if it sincerely wants to improve inter-Korean relations.
 
Unification ministry spokesperson Lim Byeong-cheol said earlier that the appeal doesn't appear to be an official response to Seoul's dialogue proposal.