South Korea Thursday welcomed a call by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un for top-level talks as "meaningful" and suggested the two sides resume dialogue soon.
"Our government hopes South and North Korea will hold dialogue without formality in the near future," Ryoo Kihl-Jae, the South's unification minister in charge of inter-Korean affairs, told a briefing.
"The government takes (Kim's message) as meaningful as it showed an advanced attitude towards inter-Korean dialogue and exchanges."