Sunday, August 16, 2009
North Korea Watch: Joint Projects Resume
North Korea has agreed to "lift border restrictions with South Korea to allow reunions of separated families and restart stalled tourism ventures," the AP reports.
The North's official Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch early Monday that it agreed to restart tours to the scenic Diamond Mountain resort and ancient sights in Kaesong in the North. The tours had been suspended in tensions after the inauguration of a conservative government in Seoul early last year.
The report did not say when the tours would resume.
The state news agency said the North also agreed to resume reunions of families separated by one of the world's most heavily fortified borders at Diamond Mountain before this year's annual "Chuseok" autumn harvest holiday in early October. Chuseok is one of the two biggest Korean traditional holidays celebrated in both Koreas and is equivalent to Thanksgiving in the United States.
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