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Article: Trains to cross inter-Korean border for first time in over 50 years.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- May 17, 2007
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SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- South and North Korean trains will cross the heavily fortified inter-Korean border on Thursday for the first time in more than half a century, in a highly symbolic move toward renewed reconciliation and increased economic ties.A five-car South Korean train is scheduled to travel to the North and then return to its point of departure in the west of the peninsula, while a North Korean train will travel to the South along the east coast."The test runs will be the start of regular rail services between the two Koreas. I hope it will be the first step toward establishing a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula," Unification Minister Lee ...