(MENAFN- QNA) South Korea's unification minister called on North Korea Tuesday to accept its offer of ministerial talks, South Korea's News Agency (Yonhap) reported.
"We hope that North Korea will accept our will (for dialogue) regardless of the framework and format of dialogue," Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said as he presided over a meeting of the Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation.
The government-civilian panel proposed minister-level talks with North Korea earlier this week aimed at discussing pending inter-Korean issues including the reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.
Ryoo stressed that Seoul's proposal represents its seriousness about dialogue with its neighbor as Korea marks the 70th anniversary of liberation from Japan's 35-year colonial rule.
The minister said the government will endeavor to bear fruit in inter-Korean relations in 2015.
Pyongyang remained silent on Seoul's new offer Tuesday, while its state-run media continued to criticize the presidential committee.
The North's main newspaper Rodong Sinmun claimed the panel is an agency intended to facilitate Seoul's confrontation with Pyongyang.
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