South Korea proposes tourism talks with DPRK
( 2001-09-26 16:07) (7)
South Korea on Wednesday offered talks with DPRK on rejuvenating a landmark tourism project, officials said.
Unification Minister Hong Soon-Young sent a telephone message offering to hold talks from October 3 to 5 at the DPRK's scenic Mount Kumgang, ministry officials said.
The agenda for the tourist talks could include a proposed cross-border road to attract more tourists to Mount Kumgang.
North and South Korea launched the project for South Korean tourists to visit Mount Kumgang in 1998, but it has lost hundreds of millions of dollars for the South's Hyundai Group as visitor numbers fall. Hyundai organised cruise trips to the mountain.
The countries resumed ministerial talks in Seoul last week after a six-month freeze.
The two sides agreed to hold more reunions of families torn apart by the 1950-53 Korean War. The DPRK also pledged to make a new attempt to reconnect a cross-border railway and road link.
The leaders of the two Koreas held a historic summit in June 2000, and agreed to end their decades of enmity.
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