North Korea Brings Economic Agenda South
PANMUNJOM, Korea — North Korean Deputy Prime Minster Kim Dal Hyon arrived in the capitalist south on Sunday, carrying hopes of economic cooperation from his hard-line Communist government.
But he gave little sign of wanting to bridge the political and ideological gap between the two Koreas during his visit, the highest-level economic exchange between Seoul and Pyongyang since the peninsula was divided in 1945.
“We begin this trip to the south in a bid to contribute to the re-establishment of our severed national economic links and the reunification of our country,†Kim said after arriving at the heavily fortified border village of Panmunjom.
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