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South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Tuesday began conducting separate surveys of the remaining 200-meter stretches of land on each side in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the Ministry of Unification of South Korea said.
The surveys, which started Tuesday morning, will last until Thursday and aim to fix most suitable places to connect the Donghae (East Sea) cross-border railway and adjacent road, said the ministry.
Cho Myoung-gyon, chief of the ministry's inter-Korean exchange and cooperation bureau, led the South Korea's 15-member team of experts and support personnel while a 12-member delegation from the DPRK was also engaged in the surveys.
The two sides will exchange the results of the land measure in early December, the ministry said.
Other surveys for the reconnection of the Gyeonggui (Seoul-Sinuiju) line on the western side of the DMZ are scheduled for the coming Friday and Saturday.
At the same time, the two sides seem to have difficulties resuming the landmines removing work also in the DMZ for the inter-Korean railways and roads connection soon. It is because the DPRK and United Nation Command (UNC) have had differences on South-North joint cross-border inspection of the mines clearance work in the past two weeks.
(Xinhua News Agency November 26, 2002)
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