South Korea sent a fax message to Pyongyang on Monday, calling for high-level talks to be held on August 19 at the border of Panmunjom.

The meeting aims to discuss another possible family reunion for those who were separated during the Korean War.

According to an official of South Korea's Unification Ministry, the South has sent a proposal this morning to the North under its chief delegate Kim Kyou-hyun through the inter-Korean communications channel. The proposal is calling for a second inter-Korean high-level meeting.

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"We believe that we would be able even to discuss issues like... the resumption of tours to Mount Kumgang if requested by the North," the official said.

South Korea proposed that a new round of family reunions be held on September 8 around the Korean Thanksgiving Holiday, Chuseok.

If North Korea accepts the proposed high-level meeting, South Korea said it would be willing to discuss other issues with the North, according to a South Korean official in a statement made to the Yonhap News Agency.

Tours to Mount Kumgang started in 1998, but were suspended in July 2008 when a North Korean soldier shot and killed a female tourist from South Korea.

The last high-level meeting between the two Koreas was held in February in which both parties agreed to improve ties between the North and the South, continue family reunion events and for both sides to stop slandering each other.

The meeting was followed by a six day family reunion event that was held at a North Korean mountain resort. It was the first family reunion in the two Koreas for more than three years. The reunion allowed hundreds of Koreans to meet their long lost relatives for the first time since the Korean War.

South Korea also asked North Korea if it wanted to propose another date for the meeting.

North Korea has yet to respond to the invitation.

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