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S. Korea urges DPRK to join in reconciliatory road with courage

Xinhua, August 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to join in a reconciliatory road with courage by participating in a railway project to link the two Koreas as far as to Europe through Russia's Trans-Siberian railway.

Park made the comments at a ground-breaking ceremony in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province near the inter-Korean land border, to restore the South section of an inter-Korean railroad that linked Seoul to the DPRK's eastern city of Wonsan in the past.

Park hoped that the DPRK would believe in South Korea's sincerity and join the path to inter-Korean reconciliation with courage, saying Seoul would help Pyongyang develop its economy through inter-Korean cooperation.

The president said the restoration of the disconnected inter- Korean railway would become a starting point to healing the wounds of the Korean Peninsula and going toward unification and a hopeful future.

The restoration will enable trains to move from South Korea's southern port city of Busan to the DPRK's Wonsan and as far as to Europe via the Trans-Siberian railway, Park noted, adding that the doors were always open to the DPRK participating in this process.

Park asked the DPRK to adopt the policy of openness and change for co-prosperity and co-development together with South Korea. Endi