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이산가족 상봉 행사의 막바지 준비를 위한 우리 측 사전 선발대가 20일 오전 행사 장소인 금강산으로 떠났다.
대한적십자사 관계자 등 10여명으로 구성된 사전 선발대는 이날 오전 9시께 동해선 남북출입사무소(CIQ)를 통해 군사분계선(MDL)을 넘어 금강산으로 들어갔다.
이들은 이산가족 상봉 행사에서 사용할 우리 측 상봉단의 숙소 문제에 대해 북측과 최종 조율을 시도한다.
북측은 남측 상봉단의 숙소와 관련, "20일 사전 선발대 방북시 이 문제를 논의하자"는 입장을 표명한 바 있다.
우리 측은 고령 이산가족의 편안하고 안전한 상봉을 위해 외금강•금강산 호텔을 사용해야 한다는 입장인 데 반해 북측은 해금강 호텔과 현대생활관을 숙소로 제시해 최종 합의에 이르지 못했다.
이들은 이산가족 상봉 행사일(25~30일)까지 현지에 머물면서 행사의 순조로운 진행을 위한 점검을 벌일 예정이다.
<관련 영문 기사>
A group of South Korean Red Cross officials crossed the border into North Korea Friday to arrange accommodations for South Korean families who are scheduled to meet with their relatives in the North next week.
The advance party of about a dozen Red Cross officials entered North Korea via the border office on the east coast and headed to the venue of the temporary family reunions at the Mount Kumgang resort.
The reunions, scheduled for Sept. 25-30, are expected to bring together more than 90 South Koreans and their family members in the North, who were separated in the 1950-53 Korean War.
The event comes amid a thaw in inter-Korean relations following months of tensions sparked by North Korea's third nuclear test in February and its closure of a joint industrial park in the North's border city of Kaesong in April.
The two Koreas have yet to agree on lodgings for the visiting South Korean families, with the sides reportedly proposing different hotels at the mountain resort.
If the reunions take place, they will be the first in three years. (Yonhap News)
