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...tourism development in the North. The caravan over the first new route across the DMZ since the end of the Korean War was a poignant, intensely emotional moment for Koreans. Hyundai Asan plans to pour $250 million?for starters?into a planned industrial park and tourist project in Kaesong, a city barely an hour from Seoul. Says Kaesong city councilor Jong Yong Chol: "The U.S. maneuvers against our country are getting more and more severe. But the people of the North and the South see this project as crucial to reunification...
...Korea-American businessman who visited the city of Kaesong recently was shocked to learn it had had no electricity for 10 days. The only electric lights shining at night in Kaesong those illuminating monuments to the late "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung. Many city have electricity at certain times of the day. Foreign reporters who visited Shinuiju last month, for the unveiling of a plan to turn it into a free economic zone designed to lure investors, were struck by the contrast with the neighboring Chinese city of Dandong. Dandong at night is a blaze of lights; across the river...
...They carted off stone carvings, pagodas and priceless reliquary caskets from Buddhist temples and removed tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts from libraries. The choicest booty was often bestowed on the Emperor?like the prized blue celadon ceramics found only in the tombs of the Koryo dynasty nobility around Kaesong (now in North Korea near the border with the South). Ancient pots and spears and the like disappeared into storerooms and collections at Japan's biggest universities. Soon after the Japanese left, a young Korean National Museum official named Hwang Su Young went to Kaesong and surveyed the damage...
...KAESONG CITY, North Korea: Still reeling from the economic losses caused by last year's ruinous floods, North Korea is once again suffering heavy monsoon rains that have inundated several key grain-producing regions, causing severe damage to farmland and killing at least 230 people. The flooding, which has caused less extensive damage in parts of South Korea, has destroyed as much as 20 percent of North Korea's annual food production. Robert Hauser, country representative of the World Food Programme in DPRK, talked to TIME after returning from Kaesong City, which is flooded by about 8 feet of water...
...between South and North Korea. Its passengers included Hu Rak Lee, 48, director of South Korea's powerful Central Intelligence Agency, an aide and two bodyguards. At Panmunjom, Lee and his party transferred to a North Korean car, crossed the border and drove to the nearby village of Kaesong. There they boarded a helicopter for Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Lee was the first high-ranking South Korean official to visit Pyongyang since the armistice ending the fighting of the Korean War was signed in 1953. His secret trip paved the way for the most important event in Korea...