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NKOREA-SKOREA-MOTOR ROADS
North and SKorea begin consultations on linking their motor
roads: Yonhap
MOSCO, June 28, 2018(BSS/TASS)- Senior officials from transport agencies of North and South Korea on Thursday began talks on linking the two countries’ motor roads to make it possible to travel from Pyongyang to Seoul by car.
The consultations are being held in Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas, Yonhap said.
According to the news agency, the talks are focusing on the construction of a 19-kilometer motorway section between North Korea’s Kaesong and South Korea’s Munsan.
So far, however, large-scale economic cooperation between the two Koreas is hampered by economic sanctions imposed on North Korea by the United Nations Security Council following its nuclear and missile tests.
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met in Panmunjom on April 27. It was the first-ever summit meeting between the South and the North over more than ten years.
The two leaders signed a joint declaration on peace, prosperity and unification of the Korean Peninsula.
Seoul and Pyongyang reiterated that their commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and agreed to continue active top-level dialogue.
The two Koreas also agreed to kick off a project for linking their rail and motor ways.
BSS/TASS/AU/08:55 hrs