The presidential office has promised best efforts to prepare for the inter-Korean summit as the two Koreas on Thursday agreed to hold the meeting on April 27th.

In a text message sent out to reporters, Presidential spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom also asked for the public to be united in the hope for the summit to be a groundbreaking turning point in establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula.  

Earlier Thursday, a high-level South Korean delegation led by Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon held talks with a North Korean delegation headed by Ri Son-gwon, chairman of the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland. 

During the meeting held at the Panmunjeom border village, the two sides agreed to hold an inter-Korean summit on April 27th on the South Korean side of the truce village.

Seoul is known to have proposed several dates for the summit and the two sides eventually settled on the 27th.

There was no particular mention of the summit's agenda in a joint press statement the two Koreas issued after the Thursday meeting.

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