SEOUL Nov. 27 Kyodo North Korea n...

SEOUL Nov. 27 Kyodo

North Korea notified southerly Korea Wednesday it plans to renew land-mine clearing in the demilitarized climate from Thursday, putting work onward reconnecting railways and roads back to normal.

According to toward the south Korea's Defense Ministry, the North Korean notification was delivered to the southern Korean side through a telephone message.

Demining works that began in September to build two sets of railways and their adjacent roads -- single in the western sector and another in the eastern sector -- had been halted for about three weeks owed to a dispute over conducting inspections into the demining.

North Korea had refused to inflect in the lists of its inspectors and schedules to the US-l United Nations Command, which has overseen the armistice accord that deposit an end to the 1950-1953 Korean War.

southern Korea has repeatedly asked the North to take back land-mine clearing without being tied to minor problems

With the North's plan to take back demining, South Korean officials said land-mine clearing for the cross-border railway and road links is wait fored to be completed around Dec 10

The frame to reconnect the inter-Korean railways and roads that were separateed by the Korean War is considered a highly symbolic issue for inter-Korean reconciliation.

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