Cross-border train between North and South Korea
I can’t really fathom yet the wider implications of this piece of news beyond what the article states:
If and when the rail link finally opens, there are obvious advantages for both sides.
For South Korea, it would mean that goods produced using cheap North Korean labour, in a joint industrialised zone to the north of the border, could be more easily transported out of the country.
For the North, it would boost the tourist trade, providing a link to a mountain resort on the east coast popular with South Koreans.
– Via BBC News via Seppo.
I hold out hope that I will see the Koreas reunify within my lifetime, even as I fear the problems they will face in integration the two now-disparate cultures, which grew up for generations hating/fearing/disparaging/pitying each other.
You shush your mouth!
😀 Yeah, I know.
Wow, that’s amazing news.
The article makes it sound like there are already other open crossings between North and South (a resort in North Korea that’s popular with South Koreans). I hadn’t realized there were any links.
“I hold out hope that I will see the Koreas reunify within my lifetime …”
Here’s to you living a very, very, very long time.