A protester stabs the North Korean flag with a sword during an anti-North Korea rally against the planned two Koreas summit at downtown of Seoul on Friday. /AP

This is according to Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung, who was speaking at a policy review conference in his office at the government complex in Seoul on Sunday.

"The second batch of the summit preparation team has reported that it has agreed with North Korea on President Roh and the First Lady crossing the MDL on foot, accompanied by the 13 official entourage members," Lee said.

"The president and his entourage crossing the MDL on foot will be an historic and impressive moment," Lee added. "I hope this will serve as an historic occasion to establish peace on the Korean Peninsula."

Roh's crossing of the border will be broadcast live all over the world.

Roh and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il are likely to meet at least five times in formal meetings, over a meal and watching performances at their summit from Tuesday to Thursday. According to a rough itinerary revealed Sunday, their first meeting will be held at the Baekhwawon State Guesthouse outside Pyongyang on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after the South Korean president arrives in the North. After delivering a five-minute speech that will be broadcast live at 8 a.m., Roh leaves for the North, walking across the border at 9 a.m. He then drives up the highway linking the border city of Kaesong with Pyongyang to arrive in the capital at 11:30 a.m.

Roh attends an official welcoming ceremony hosted by Supreme People’s Assembly President Kim Yong-nam at the Memorial Tower in Three Unification Principles Square. He will inspect an honor guard of North Korean troops as he would during any other state visit. Arriving at the Baekhwawon State Guesthouse at around noon, Roh meets Kim Jong-il for an hour before a dinner for the entire South Korean delegation hosted by the north’s no. 2 leader Kim Yong-nam. But the high point will come on the second day, when Roh has two formal meetings with North Korea’s supreme leader, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, with only a few key aides present.

Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung chairs a policy review conference in the reception room of his office at the government complex in Sejongro, Seoul on Sunday morning. Lee said both Koreas have agreed on President Roh Moo-hyun crossing the MDL on foot when he enters North Korea for the inter-Korean summit on Tuesday. /Yonhap

National Intelligence Service Director Kim Man-bok, Finance Minister Kwon O-kyu, Presidential Chief Secretary for National Security Baek Jong-chun, Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung and Presidential National Policy Secretary Sung Kyoung-ryung may sit in on the summit talks. Afterwards, Roh is to watch North Korea’s mass gymnastics propaganda performance “Arirang” and host a return dinner for North Korean delegates. Given the length of the summit and the performance, the dinner will probably run into late night. North Korean leader Kim will also likely attend both performance and dinner. If so, there will be a welcoming address and reply. After the dinner, the two heads of state will sign a joint statement on the results of their summit after essentially spending all Wednesday together.

On Thursday morning, Roh visits the West Sea Barrage and Pyongwha Motors in Nampo, a city likely to be designated another economic cooperation zone at the summit in addition to the existing Kaesong Industrial Complex. Roh leaves the North after a farewell luncheon hosted by Supreme People’s Assembly President Kim at the Baekhwawon State Guesthouse. Kim Jong-il is also expected to attend the luncheon, as he did when former president Kim Dae-jung left North Korea after the first inter-Korean summit in 2000.

Roh drops by at the Kaesong Industrial Complex to encourage workers there, an event that will also be broadcast live. He arrives at Cheong Wa Dae at around 8 p.m. on Thursday. It has not been decided when he will address the public on the results of the summit. In 2000, former President Kim Dae-jung delivered a 40-minute speech on the outcome of his meeting with the North Korean leader immediately after arriving at a military airport in Songnam, Gyeonggi Province.

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