Seoul: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak held talks with a visiting North Korean delegation on Sunday amid Pyongyang`s latest conciliatory moves that show signs of easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, media reports said.
A high-level North Korean delegation arrived here on Friday to pay their last respect to late former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung who died recently.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il`s close aides, Kim Ki Nam and Kim Yang Gon, are part of the Pyongyang delegation. President Lee, Unification Minister Hyun In-taek and other South Korean officials met the delegation at the President`s Office for about 30 minutes, media reports said.
The officials discussed the release of four South Korean fishermen held by Pyongyang, resumption of the inter-Korean dialogue, among others, reports said.
The meeting went very well, Kim Ki Nam told reporters after the talks.
The North Korean delegation also delivered a message from their leader Kim Jong il to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. They were expected to return to Pyongyang later Sunday.
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