PYONGYANG, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Representatives of women from the two Koreas met on Thursday and Friday at Mt. Kumgang Resort of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), vowing to implement two declarations on reunification.

    The delegates called for promoting the national reconciliation and unity and boosting the desire for reunification, said the official news agency KCNA.

    They vowed to uphold and implement the June 15 joint declaration and the Oct. 4 declaration, which were reached by the two Korea's leaders in 2000 and 2007 respectively, the KCNA added.

    The two Koreas had made unprecedented strides toward reconciliation under a past decade of liberal South Korean presidents.

    But relations between Pyongyang and Seoul had become more tense since South Korea's conservative new president, Lee Myung-bak, pledged to take a harder line on the North.