Updated Oct.8,2001 19:26 KST

Leaders to Discuss Raids on Taliban

President Kim Dae Jung and Grand National Party leader Lee Hoi Chang will meet in Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday morning. The meeting proposed by president¡¯s office, is the first in nine months since a seventh one on January 4. Presidential spokesman Oh Hong-keun said that the meeting was designed to discuss supra partisan cooperation for the US-led war against terrorism, adding that ministers of related ministries are supposed to report the situation of the US raid in the meeting. GNP Spokesman Kwon Chul-hyon said the two leaders will discuss only the terrorist attacks on America and the US-UK raids on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

(Choi Gu-sik, qs1234@chosun.com )