Kaesong, North Korea News

Inter-Korean talks could possibly resume as early as mid-April, South Korea's unification minister said Friday, hinting at the possibility of holding the first government-level talks with North Korea in almost year.

Ruling Saenury Party lawmaker Kim Chung-hwan delivers a speech to the media before Park and other lawmakers head to North Korea's Industrial District of Kaesong from the Inter-Korean Transit Terminal at the border village of Paju in the demilitarized zone, South Korea, Friday, Feb.

PAJU, South Korea - A delegation of South Korean lawmakers has crossed the tense border with North Korea to visit a joint factory park seen as the last major symbol of reconciliation between the rivals.

SEOUL: A group of South Korean lawmakers will pay a rare visit this week to a jointly-run industrial estate in North Korea despite political tensions, Seoul announced Monday.

The government apparently wants to include the Rajin-Sonbong and Hwanggumpyong special economic zones as external manufacturing regions in free trade talks with China, it emerged on Thursday.

It has been belatedly confirmed that three Korean-Americans - Unification Church international president Moon Hyung-jin, Pyeonghwa Motors CEO Park Sang-kwon and Washington Times chairman Douglas D.M. Joo - crossed the DMZ on Dec 24 and visited Pyongyang to offer condolences for the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il . Now, Yonhap suggests ... (more)

South Korea has invited Boeing, Lockheed Martin and EADS to participate in its next generation fighter jet program, in which the country will invest 8.3 trillion won until 2021.

A South Korean soldier looks at a truck loaded with sacks of flour leaving for the North Korean city of Kaesong at the Unification Bridge near the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea, Friday, Jan.

A South Korean group will deliver 180 tons of flour aid to North Korea in the coming week, an official said on Friday, the first shipment from the South since leader Kim Jong-Il's death last month.