DORASAN STATION, South Korea, Dec 11 (AP): North and South Korea began regular freight train service across their heavily armed border Tuesday for the first time in more than a half century, in another symbolic step in their reconciliation.
The 12-car train carried construction materials to a North Korean border station, and then returned home carrying shoes, underwear and other items produced at a South-North joint industrial complex in the North Korean border city of Kaesong.
The service is one of the tangible results of an October summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun that outlined a series of joint projects. It comes months after the two sides conducted a one-time test run of passenger trains on two reconnected tracks on the western and eastern sides of the peninsula.
The freight train is to make a 10-mile round trip every weekday to North Korea.
Koreas begin cargo train service
FE Team | Published: December 12, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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