South and North Korean lexicographers have launched a weeklong meeting at the Mount Geumgang resort in North Korea to discuss details of an inter-Korean project to create a joint dictionary.
 
The Unification Ministry said on Monday that about 30 South Korean experts will visit Mount Geumgang over the course of a week to hold talks with their North Korean counterparts.
 
About ten North Korean scholars will attend the joint meeting.
 
The two Koreas plan to discuss the drafts produced by each side on about 21-thousand words to be included in the dictionary.
 
The project, which started in 2006, 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.