Korean Train Crossing!

mapleleaf4ever · #1 (**permalink**) May 17, 07

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A pair of passenger trains have crossed the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea for the first time in more than 50 years. The two trains - one travelling from the North and one from the South - each carried 150 invited passengers.
South Korea hailed it as a landmark in relations between the two countries.
But Thursday's crossing remains largely symbolic, the BBC's Charles Scanlon says. North Korea has so far only agreed to a one-off test-run.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6664091.stm

Interesting stuff... North Korea lets this little event happen but only if they get millions of dollars in compensation for development. Well at least this is a sign that maybe one day the real world might start leaching in through the cracks in the once formidable veil of Communist Secrecy that shrouded the Nation.

Gunter S · #2 (**permalink**) May 17, 07

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mapleleaf4ever · #3 (**permalink**) May 17, 07

^ And that is relevant to Korean Peninsula Reunification how?

Gunter S · #4 (**permalink**) May 17, 07

it's a game of inches. one train crossing at a time

mapleleaf4ever · #5 (**permalink**) May 17, 07

It's more of a Game of concessions and bargaining.

Failing that it's going to be a Game similar to 1953.

.Promoter · #6 (**permalink**) May 17, 07

i dont know, i would have to call north korea heavily tolitarean.

They are communist idealed but run in a facist manner.

I think it willl be another 20-50 years after kims death for things to change in personal opinion