The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has accepted both North Korean and Chinese lists of relics from the ancient Goguryeo Kingdom for the World Heritage List 2004.
Attending the 28th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in China, South Korea's head delegate, Park Heung-shin, said both North Korea and China have agreed to separately submit lists of relics from the Goguryeo Kingdom, an ancient dynasty whose boundaries were geographically shared by the two countries.
Conflicts have risen in recent years between North Korea and China over the Goguryeo Kingdom, which both sides claim as being a part of their own discrete history.
Regardless of the debate on the kingdom, UNESCO was expected to reach a non-political decision by accepting the lists of both sides.