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Special Envoy Group of DPRK Meets Lee Myung Bak
Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- The special envoy group which visited Seoul to mourn the death of ex-President Kim Dae Jung upon the authorization of Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, met President of south Korea Lee Myung Bak on Sunday.

Present there from the DPRK side were Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and Kim Yang Gon, department director of the WPK Central Committee, and from the south side Hyon In Thaek, minister of Unification, and others.

Issues of developing the relations between the north and the south were discussed there.

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