SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Inter-Korean summit set for early October will pave the way for the formation of a cross-border economic community and a permanent and unification-oriented peace regime, said Jeong Se-hyun, adviser to South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, on Wednesday.

    Jeong, also former Unification Minister, said the two Koreas will have to move one step forward toward the formation of a common economic community during Roh's visit to Pyongyang from Oct. 2 to 4.

    "Economically, two Koreas should be helpful to each other, paving the way for peace and unification. For that purpose, the character of inter-Korean economic cooperation should be changed from assistance to investment," Jeong said in an essay posted on the Website of the Presidential Office.

    Jeong is now serving as chairman of the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation. He said the summit between Roh and his DPRK counterpart Kim Jong-il will lay the cornerstone of a permanent peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.

Inter-Korean summit to be postponed to Oct. 2-4

South Korea's Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung (L) and Vice Unification Minister Lee Kwan-se (2nd L) attend an urgent meeting for the postponed inter-Korean summit at the Unification Ministry in Seoul August 18, 2007. The two Koreas agreed on Saturday to postpone until Oct 2-4 the summit they had planned to hold this month because of the flooding that has killed hundreds of people and made more than 300,000 homeless in the North.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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  SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's Presidential Office said Saturday that the second Inter-Korean Summit, originally set for Aug. 28-30, will be postponed to Oct. 2-4 under a request of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

    The DPRK sent a telephone message to the Kim Man-bok, chief of South Korea's National Intelligence Service this morning, and requested to postpone South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun's visit to Pyongyang from late August until early October due to its urgent task to recover from heavy flood damage, Roh's spokesman Cheon Ho-seon said at a news briefing. 

S Korean president expects upcoming inter-Korean summit normalize inter-Korean ties

   SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun expected the upcoming inter-Korean summit can help normalize inter-Korean ties, said Roh's spokesman Cheon Ho-seon on Wednesday.

    "The second inter-Korean summit will help normalize inter-Korean relations and provide fresh momentum to improve the North (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK)'s relations with international society," Roh was quoted by Cheon as saying. 

S Korea, DPRK agree to hold inter-Korean summit

   SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have agreed to hold the second Inter-Korean Summit in Pyongyang in late August, said an official of the Presidential Office on Wednesday.

    Under an agreement between South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and DPRK top leader Kim Jong-il, the two leaders will hold the second Inter-Korean Summit in Pyongyang on Aug. 28-30, said Baek Jong-chun, national security adviser to Roh Moo-hyun, at a news conference held in the Presidential Office.