Researchers speaking at an event hosted by the Korean Association of North Korean Studies in Seoul on Friday have pushed for North and South Korea to hold an inter-Korean summit.

The discussions took place during a session titled, “The Direction of development of South-North relations,” amid talk of a potential summit gaining public momentum since the start of 2015, the 70th year since the two Koreas were divided.

Speaker Cheong Seong-Chang, senior fellow at the Sejong Institute, said the South Korean government has failed to respond to its citizens’ desire for inter-Korean communication, citing a recent poll that showed 80.6 percent of