soulxtc
December 28th, 2005, 09:22 AM
The two Koreas established limited commercial telephone links across their heavily armed border on Wednesday for the first time in their 60 years of division, officials said.
The cross-border phone service is exclusively for South Korean businesses operating in an industrial zone in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Seoul.
Three-hundred phone lines were established to the complex, according to Koo Ja-ho, a spokesman for KT Corp., South Korea's main telecommunications company. South Koreans run 15 factories there using cheap North Korean labor.
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The cross-border phone service is exclusively for South Korean businesses operating in an industrial zone in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Seoul.
Three-hundred phone lines were established to the complex, according to Koo Ja-ho, a spokesman for KT Corp., South Korea's main telecommunications company. South Koreans run 15 factories there using cheap North Korean labor.
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