ROK workers visit Kaesong for renovation to set up liaison office with DPRK

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A team of workers from the Republic of Korea (ROK) visited Kaesong, a border town of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Monday to renovate facilities there as part of efforts to set up a joint liaison office with the DPRK, according to Seoul's unification ministry.

The ROK team of 26 workers crossed the military demarcation line (MDL) dividing the two Koreas at 8:37 a.m. local time (23:37 GMT Sunday) to travel via the western land route to the DPRK's border town.

The workers will do the maintenance works for facilities, including the inter-Korean exchange, cooperation offices, dormitories and supporting centers.

ROK's Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung speaks to the media before leaving for North Korea to attend the opening of a liaison office in the Kaesong Joint Industrial Complex, at the CIQ (Customs, Immigration, Quarantine) inter-Korean transit point in Paju on June 8, 2018. /VCG Photo

A ROK advance team, led by Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sun, visited Kaesong last month to conduct on-spot examinations over the inter-Korean industrial complex in Kaesong.

The maintenance works kicked off to implement the Panmunjom Declaration, which ROK President Moon Jae-in and top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un signed after their first summit meeting on April 27 at the border village of Panmunjom.

Under the Panmunjom Declaration, the two leaders agreed to establish the joint liaison office in Kaesong.

The Kaesong Industrial Complex has suspended operations since the previous ROK government unilaterally closed it down in February 2006 over Pyongyang's nuclear test in the previous month.

(Cover: December 19, 2013: DPRK employees work in a factory of a ROK company at the Joint Industrial Park in Kaesong industrial zone. /VCG Photo)

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency