"The second inter-Korean summit should contribute to peace and wellbeing on the Korean peninsula. The talks will also give a boost to resolving the North Korea nuclear problem," the South Korean presidential administration said.
Talks between South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Il will take place seven years after the first groundbreaking summit of the North's leader with South Korea's then president, Kim Dae-jung, also in Pyongyang.
The 2000 summit marked a thaw in relations and led to economic benefits for the impoverished Communist North. The new summit comes after North Korea shut down its only operating nuclear reactor, a source of weapons-grade plutonium, last month in exchange for economic and diplomatic incentives under a February six-nation deal.
