The South Korean government will propose holding late-March high-level talks with the North to prepare for an inter-Korean summit the following month, Seoul’s Blue House announced on Friday.

The announcement followed the first meeting of the Moon Jae-in administration’s preparatory committee for the North-South summit, held at 1500 local time at the South Korean presidential office.

Pyongyang and Seoul earlier in the month agreed to hold an inter-Korean summit in late April at the Peace House on the southern part of Panmunjom.

“The preparatory committee has decided to push for high-level inter-Korean talks in late March ahead of the summit,