Early Edition 18:00 Two Koreas to hold another round of high-level talks at Panmumjom on Friday

.Title: Two Koreas to hold another round of high-level talks at Panmumjom on Friday For the first time in seven years, high-level officials from the two Koreas sat down together in a room for talks on Wednesday. And they'll do it again Friday on North Korea's request. Park Ji-won tells us what they're expected to discuss. South and North Korea will hold another round of high-level talks on Friday at Panmumjom,... the border town beween two Koreas. North Korea suggested the two Koreas meet on Thursday afternoon,... but the South Korean government countered with an offer of 10 a.m. on Friday, which the North accepted. The meeting will be a follow-up to high-level talks that began on Wednesday and ended 14 hours later with no concrete agreement in place. The two sides did agree in principle to proceed as planned with reunions for families separated by the Korean War from the 20th to the 25th, but the North also urged South Korea to postpone its joint military exercices with the United States that are slated to start February 24th. South Korea's defense ministry rejected that call on Thursday, and reiterated that the annual drills are strictly defensive in nature. Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, in an appearance at the National Assembly on Thursday, said he still expects the reunions to be held as scheduled. As for Friday's talks, the unification ministry believes Pyongyang asked for another meeting because Wednesday's had finished without a resolution. Park Ji-won, Arirang News. Title: South Korea: inter-Korean talks opportunity to gauge intentions Meanwhile... as for the first round of inter-Korean contact... the South Korean government said earlier on this Thursday that yesterday's meeting... was an opportunity to clearly explain its principles to the North, and to learn a little bit more about Pyongyang's intentions. Presidential spokesperson Min Kyung-wook told reporters... the South Korean delegation explained President Park's envisioned trust-building process with North Korea as well as her thoughts on inter-Korean relations. Seoul also got to know how sensitive Pyongyang is when it comes to the South's military drills with the U.S. and South Korean media coverage denouncing the North. However, the spokesperson said the agenda did not include resuming tours to the North's Mt. Kumgang resort or lifting South Korean sanctions in response to the North's torpedo attack on a South Korean warship in 2010.