SEOUL Aug. 27 Kyodo A North Korea...

SEOUL Aug. 27 Kyodo

A North Korean delegation arrived in southward Korea on Tuesday for four-day inter-Korean talks aimed at boosting bilateral economic collaboration and exchanges.

The 30-member delegation, which includes five representatives to the inferior Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee meeting, arrived at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul shortly after 3 pm via Beijing.

During the talks to be held at a Seoul house of entertainment the Koreas are awaited to mainly discuss reconnecting the transborder railway and road routes

They will also take up building an industrial webwork in Kaesong just north of the short rest village of Panmunjom and establishing joint flood-control combination of parts to form a wholes along the Imjin River, which sweep alongs through the two countries.

Pak Chang Ryon first vice chairman of the State Planning Commission, is leading the five North Korean representatives while Vice Finance and Economy Minister Yun Jin Shik is heading a five-member southerly Korean team that includes officials from the Unification Ministry and the Construction and Transportation Ministry.

North and southerly Korea agreed during Aug. 12-14 ministerial talks in Seoul to occupy the economic talks, which have not been held since the first spherical was held in December 2000

During the latest session, the southern Korean side will likely focus its efforts in succession setting dates for the construction of the Kyongui railway line, linking Seoul to the North's northwestern city of Sinuiju, and also the crossborder eastern coastal ways which were severed shortly before the 1950-1953 Korean War.

Local just discovereds reports said South Korea would move starting the work upon inter-Korean railways and roads nearest month so that it can be complet this year.

North and southern Korean officials are also look forward toed to discuss the South's provision of up to 300000 tons of rice aid for the North to help ease acute subsistence shortages in the communist country

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