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South Korean President to travel by road to summit in North Korea

Aug 14, 2007, 15:07 GMT

Seoul - South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun is to travel by road through the heavily-secured inter-Korean border for the planned summit meeting with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il, South Korean media reported Tuesday. The decision was made by negotiators from both sides Tuesday in the North-Korean border town of Kaesong during preparatory talks for the summit to be held August 28-30 in Pyongyang. President Roh and about 200 government officials, advisers and reporters will drive to Pyongyang through the streets of the western part of the four-kilometre-wide buffer zone that has divided the two Koreas since their 1950-53 war. Both sides have reportedly agreed to a broad-ranging agenda which includes peace on the Korean Peninsula, co-prosperity of both nations and national reunification. Further preparatory meetings are expected to be held in the upcoming weeks. In the last week since the surprise announcement that the second-ever inter-Korean conference would be held, South Korea has said that it would ask North Korea to allow Roh to travel to the summit by road. Then South Korean President Kim Dae Jung travelled to Pyongyang by air for the last summit in 2000. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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