Inter-Korean high-level talks

Inter-Korean high-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Kyou Hyun (R), head of the South Korean delegation, shakes hands with South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2014, before heading for the border village of Panmunjeom to hold high-level talks with North Korean officials. The two Koreas held their first high-level meeting in seven years.

Inter-Korean high-level talks

Inter-Korean high-level talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Kyou Hyun (L), head of the South Korean delegation, meets with South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae (R) in Seoul on Feb. 12, 2014, before heading for the border village of Panmunjeom to hold high-level talks with North Korean officials. The two Koreas held their first high-level meeting in seven years.

S. Korea accepts North's proposal for dialogue

S. Korea accepts North's proposal for dialogue

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae holds a press conference in Seoul on June 6, 2013. Ryoo accepted North Korea's call for government-to-government talks and offered to host a ministerial dialogue in Seoul.

S. Korea's unification minister teaches students

S. Korea's unification minister teaches students

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae gives a lesson on national unification to a class of sixth-graders at an elementary school in Munsan near the inter-Korean border on May 27, 2013.

S. Korea's unification minister teaches students

S. Korea's unification minister teaches students

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae (C top) poses for group photos with sixth-graders after giving them a lesson on national unification at an elementary school in Munsan near the inter-Korean border on May 27, 2013.

S. Korea to withdraw all workers from Kaesong

S. Korea to withdraw all workers from Kaesong

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl Jae holds a press conference in Seoul on April 26, 2013. Ryoo said South Korea has decided to withdraw all South Korean workers at the inter-Korean industrial zone in the North's border town of Kaesong.