New Rail and Road Links Started

In the latest sign of improving relations between North and South Korea, workers began rebuilding a railway line and started a new highway across the world’s most heavily armed border to connect the two Korean capitals, Pyongyang in the North and Seoul in the South, for the first time in more than half a century. South Korean President Kim Dae Jung presided over the groundbreaking ceremony in Imjingak, a village just south of the Demilitarized Zone, which has separated the two Koreas since the 1945 division of the peninsula.