South Korea says it will be sending a train into North Korea this Friday to survey the railways there. The two Koreas have plans to upgrade North Korea's railroads and connect them across the border with the much more modern system in the South.
Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul.
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South Korea says the survey will last 18 days as proposed by North Korea.
The inspection will cover 12-hundred kilometers of North Korea's railroads.
During peace talks this year, North and South Korea said they hope to connect their railways across the border by the end of the year.
But any railroad exchanges would likely be banned under international sanctions against North Korea.
The United Nations has approved a sanctions exemption but for just the survey.
And that came after months of delays.
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