
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 4, 1990                   TAG: 9007040156
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: HOLIDAY 
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DATELINE: PANMUNJOM, KOREA                                LENGTH: Short

NORTH, SOUTH KOREANS AGREE TO FIRST SUMMIT

North Korea and South Korea took a major step toward reconciliation Tuesday and agreed to a historic meeting between their top government leaders.

The talks could be held as early as August, officials said.

Delegates from the countries met at the border truce village of Panmunjom and agreed to sign an accord July 26 that would outline a proposed agenda and procedures for the first meeting of prime ministers.

It would be the first such meeting since the division of the peninsula in 1945 into the communist North and capitalist South.

- Associated Press

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