Civic groups from the two Koreas are planning to hold a meeting in the DPRK capital this month to discuss inter-Korean civilian exchanges as a follow-up measure to last month’s Panmunjom Declaration between Pyongyang and Seoul.

The South Korean Committee for the Joint Implementation of the June 15 Summit Declaration on Tuesday said it had proposed the meeting to its North Korean and overseas counterparts. 

“We recently received the reply from the North Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration that it hopes to hold the meeting between May 23 and 26 in Pyongyang,” the South Korean civilian-run