ROK sends officials to DPRK for preparation for rail, road connecting ceremony

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The Republic of Korea (ROK) sent an advance team Monday to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to prepare for a groundbreaking ceremony later this week to connect railways and roads across the border, according to Seoul's unification ministry.
The advance team, composed of 31 officials from unification and transport ministries, left early in the morning for the DPRK's border town of Kaesong. Among them, 27 officials will stay there for the ceremony preparations.
Seoul and Pyongyang agreed to hold the groundbreaking ceremony at Panmun Station in Kaesong on Wednesday.
On Sunday, the ROK dispatched 14 officials to the Panmun Station for the ceremony preparations. They returned home late Sunday.
Following their first summit in April at the border village of Panmunjom, ROK President Moon Jae-in and top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un agreed to modernize and eventually re-connect railways and roads along the western and eastern Korean Peninsula.
Moon and Kim agreed during their Pyongyang summit in September to hold the groundbreaking ceremony before the end of this year for the rail and road connections.

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