Some Telecom Ties With North to Be Renewed
North and South Korea have agreed to resume some telecommunication services stopped half a century ago as South Korean companies start business at a jointly developed industrial park in the communist state, the South Korean government said.
KT Corp. will offer land-line phone calls and facsimile services for companies operating at the Kaesong industrial park, just across the heavily militarized border, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said in a statement.
South and North Korea technically are still at war because the armistice that halted the 1950-53 Korean War never led to a full peace treaty.
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