President Moon's proposed joint policy consultation body to hold inaugural meeting
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Our starting point this morning-- a meeting of a joint policy consultative body with the rival political parties and the government at South Korea's Presidential Office of Cheong Wa Dae.
The first meeting of its kind will bring together the leaderships of the rival political parties and members of the government.
The issues up for debate are the domestic economy and the administration's peace drive with North Korea.
For more on this, we have our presidential correspondent Shin Se-min on the line.
Se-min -- tell us more.

Right-- today's inaugural meeting is the result of an agreement reached in August between the rival parties and the Moon administration to form a joint policy consultation body.
So in a little over an hour,... party leaders and government officials will be gathering at the top office,... a meeting that will continue into a working luncheon.
President Moon is likely to call for bipartisan support from the rival political parties on issues like turning the sluggish economy around and the ongoing efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
The party leaders, in response, are sure to raise their respective stances,... especially now the National Assembly has started the process of reviewing the government's 412 billion U.S. dollar budget bill for next year.
But Mark-- the takeaway of today's meeting,.. is joint governance between the ruling and opposition parties and the government,... just as the president initially proposed.
With the parties sharply divided over most things,... it remains to be seen if the respective sides will be able to reach consensus on some of the most pressing issues facing the country.
Mark?
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