Deal on train service to North
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North and South Korea agreed today to launch cross-border rail service Dec. 11 for the first time in more than half a century, with freight trains only.
The train service will run on a 16-mile track to a joint industrial complex in the North’s border city of Kaesong.
The agreement, reached after the first talks between the countries’ prime ministers since 1992, also calls for the South to start building shipyards in North Korea and repairing a major highway and a railroad in the impoverished country next year.
The two sides will also set up a joint fishing area around their disputed western sea border next year.
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