Inter-Korean Peace House

• Completion date of construction: December 19, 1989
• Floor area:, 3 stories above ground
• Location: The Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone
• Uses: A place for peace talks at the civilian level between North and South Korea
• Jurisdiction: United Nations Command
• Function: It is a venue for inter-Korean talks.
• Layout: The first floor has a pair of rooms used for the press and lower-level delegate conferences, the second floor has a meeting room that encompasses much of the available space, and the third floor has two rooms including one for luncheons and dinners. Closed-circuit television and microphones are installed in the meeting room of the North-South Talks, so that the situation can be monitored in real time at the Blue House in Seoul.

  Events

• The Peace House is a neutral area, and the Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak administrations used it as a meeting place.
• In August 2015, National Security Agency chief Kim Kwan-jin used as the meeting place with the President of the Political Bureau of the North Korea.
• On January 9, 2018, Kwon Hyok Bong, director of the Arts and Performance Bureau in North Korea's Culture Ministry, and Hyon Song-wol, North Korea's deputy chief delegate for the talks, met with South Korean counterparts at Peace House then on January 15 at Unification Pavilion to discuss inter-Korean participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
• North and South Korea again agreed upon these venues for the 2018 inter-Korean summit which took place on April 27.

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