Two Koreas to Discuss Kaesong Normalization

　　South Korea's unification ministry¹ says it will discuss how to reopen the Kaesong industrial park with North Korea.

 

　　This comes a day after Seoul and Pyongyang agreed to hold working-level talks at the truce² village of Panmunjeom Saturday.

 

　　Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk.

 

　　"We told the North that the agendas of the talks are the Kaesong Industrial Park's facility check and taking out finished and raw materials from the park as well as normalization³ of the industrial park. It is likely that several issues related to these matters would be discussed."

 

　　The Kaesong industrial park, which houses over 100 South Korean companies, has been suspended for nearly three months after Pyongyang banned about 53-thousand of its workers from reporting to work.

 

　　Seoul also withdrew its personnel after the DPRK rejected working-level talks.

 

　　The two sides sought to hold high-level talks last month, but that scheduled dialogue was cancelled due to dispute over the ranks of chief delegates.

1 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

2 truce   

n.休战，(争执，烦恼等的)缓和；v.以停战结束

参考例句：

• The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
• She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。

3 normalization   

n.（normalisation）正常化，标准化

参考例句：

• The visit signalled the normalization of relations between the two countries.这次访问显示两国关系已经正常化。
• He was pleased to the normalization of relationship between the police and the people.他很高兴警方和人民之间关系的正常化。