North Korea Brings Economic Agenda South

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.