Koreans agree cross-border train service
NORTH and South Korea agreed yesterday to launch cross-border rail service next month for the first time in more than half a century.
The service, which will be limited to freight transport, will begin on 11 December on a 16-mile track running to a joint industrial complex in the North's border city of Kaesong.
The opening symbolises growing reconciliation between the two countries and marks one of the first tangible results of a summit last month between the South Korean president, Roh Moo-hyun, and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang.
Yesterday's agreement - reached after three days of talks between the two states' prime ministers in Seoul - also opens the way for the South to start building shipyards in North Korea and repairing a highway and a railway in the impoverished country next year.
The two sides will also start setting up a joint fishing area around their disputed western sea border.
The full article contains 163 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
16 November 2007 9:57 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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