The second round of preparatory talks for the inter-Korean summit began Tuesday in the North Korean border city of Gaesong.

The South Korean delegation led by Vice Unification Minister Lee Kwan-se arrived at a Gaesong hotel a little before ten a.m. They met with a North Korean delegation headed by Deputy Director of the United Front Department of the North's ruling Workers' Party of Korea, Choi Sung-chol.

The two sides discussed the day's schedule through liaison contacts and began discussions at a quarter to eleven.

On the agenda are the size and travel itinerary of South Korea's summit delegation, their travel route to and from Pyongyang, and the dispatch of an advance team from Seoul. A separate working-level meeting is also under way covering protocol, security, communications and media coverage.

In Tuesday's talks, South Korea is expected to propose that President Roh Moo-hyun travel by land and that his entourage be larger than the 180-member-group that visited Pyongyang for the first summit in June 2000.

Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung voiced hope that the prep talks would go well, adding that there's much to prepare for the second inter-Korean summit in seven years.