Koreas plan daily cross-border rail service

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SEOUL, Nov 22 (AFP): North and South Korea agreed Thursday to run daily freight trains when regular rail services across the heavily fortified border resume next month for the first time in over half a century.
The Koreas agreed to start a daily freight service between Munsan in the South and Bongdong in the North on December 11 and to hold an opening ceremony that day, Seoul's unification ministry said in a statement.
The service, the first since the 1950-53 Korean War, will connect to the Seoul-funded Kaesong industrial estate in the North and is expected to slash transport costs dramatically.
President Roh Moo-Hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il agreed at a historic summit in early October to resume regular freight services, and prime ministers from the two sides set a date when they met last week. Working-level officials at overnight talks in Kaesong agreed to make it a daily operation.
Cross-border trains made test runs in May in what was hailed as a milestone for unification between two countries still technically at war after their conflict ended only in an armistice.