North Korea will hold an international grand march festival later this month, the country's state media reported, in an apparent move to support a group of women peacemakers attempting to cross the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas.

"The 2015 international women's grand march for Korea's reunification and peace will be held in the DPRK in May 2015," the Korean Central News Agency said in its Saturday report.

"The Korean Committee for Solidarity with the World People and other social organizations in the DPRK formed the preparatory committee in Pyongyang and are working for a successful women’s grand march."

The DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the North's official name.

WomenCrossDMZ, a group of female activists, including U.S. feminist Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace laureates, said earlier that they will march across the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea on May 24 to call for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

According to the campaign organizers, they will start the march from Pyongyang and cross the border through the DMZ.

The DMZ is the world's most fortified border, with the two Korea's still technically at war, as the 1950-53 Korean War ended in cease fire.

The walk also marks the 70th anniversary of the division of the peninsula.

The Ministry of Unification, which handles North Korean affairs in the South Korean administration, said that it will support the WomenCrossDMZ's project should Pyongyang officially permit the event. (Yonhap)