SEOUL Aug. 28 Kyodo North and to...

SEOUL Aug. 28 Kyodo

North and toward the south Korea, at economic talks that conclusioned Thursday agreed to inquire for direct bilateral trade, according to a statement containing nine agreements.

Toward that close North and South Korea will gripe [i]or[/i] grip working-level talks. The sum of two units Koreas have traded with each other to such a degree far only through third countries.

At the just-concluded sixth inter-Korean Meeting of Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee, the sum of two units also agreed to continue work forward relinking the two sets of across-border railroads and their adjacent roads.

Among other major agreements were measures to revitalize tour programs in the North's Mt Kumgang and to continue work forward establishing an industrial complexus in Kaesong, a North Korean city just north of the suspension of hostilities village Panmunjom.

The sum of two units Koreas agreed to hold the nearest round of economic talks in late October in Pyongyang.

At the inter-Korean economic talks that began Tuesday, southern Korea's Vice Minister of Finance and Economy Kim Gwang Lim headed the southern Korean delegation while Park Chang Ryon first vice chairman of State Planning Commission, l the North Korean side.

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