DATE=8/24/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=NORTH / SOUTH KOREA RAIL ROAD (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-265819
BYLINE=HYUN-SUNG KHANG
DATELINE=SEOUL
CONTENT=
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INTRO: North and South Korea have agreed to build a
four-lane highway and reconnect railroad tracks that
will cross the heavily armed border dividing the two
countries. As Hyun-Sung Khang reports from the Seoul,
the South Korean government is hoping the transport
links will stimulate trade between the two Cold War
enemies.
TEXT: Work will begin on the road and rail links next
month. South Korean officials say the project will
take a year to complete and cost an estimated 140-
million dollars. The decision to add the four-lane
expressway comes on top of an earlier agreement to
reconnect a severed railroad track.
The rail line was cut shortly before the beginning of
the Korean war in 1950. The new line will connect the
two Korean capitals and then continue on to Sinuiju, a
town on the North's border with China.
The road and rail link will cross the world's most
heavily defended border that divides the two Koreas.
Both countries are mobilizing the military to clear
the estimated one-million undetonated land mines in
the border area.
The South Korean government says the transport links
will accelerate economic exchanges between the two
Koreas. The new expressway and rail line will
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