S.Korean Delegation to Railway Talks Heads for Pyongyang

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S.Korean Delegation to Railway Talks Heads for Pyongyang

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A South Korean delegation left Seoul for Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Wednesday morning to discuss details for the connection of inter-Korean railways and roads.

The delegation, which consists of three negotiators, eight journalists and 16 support personnel, will arrive in Pyongyang later Wednesday via Shenyang, China, according to the South Korean national news agency Yonhap News.

The South Korean team, headed by Unification Ministry official Cho Myoung-gyon, will have talks with the DPRK delegation, led by Pak Jong Song who serves as official of the DPRK Railway Ministry,in the three-day second working-level meeting from Thursday to Saturday, reported Yonhap.

Provision of security of passage across the military demarcation line (MDL) inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) which separates the two countries will be high on the agenda of the talks.

Military officials from the two sides also will soon meet to conclude talks on the security of passage through the MDL, a prerequisite for the connection of cross-border railways and roads,according to Yonhap. The previous military meeting held last December failed to reach agreement on that.

The DPRK military authority and the so-called US-led United Nations Command (UNC) have been at odds on whether the cross border corridors under the jurisdiction of the UNC in the southernpart of the DMZ.

South Korea and the DPRK have completed de-mining operations inthe DMZ as preparations for the reconstruction of two sets of railways and roads which called as Gyeongui (Seoul-Sinuiju) railway and road in the west and the Donghae railway and road in the east.

The meeting overlapped two other inter-Korean talks which respectively are holding in Mount Geumgang in the DPRK and Seoul. The Red Cross societies of the two sides will conclude the working-level talks later Wednesday while the Ninth Inter-Korean Ministerial Meeting in Seoul will finish the first round of plenary.

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