service starting next year SEOUL, Dec 22, SPA -- A cargo rail service betweenNorth and South Korea will be expanded to take passengersstarting next year, but only South Koreans will be allowedto cross the border by train, ap quoted the sources of the Unification Ministry as saying Saturday. The service, which is now limited to freighttransportation between a joint venture factory park in theNorth Korean border city of Kaesong and Musan, just acrossthe frontier, will also ferry workers to and from theindustrial complex in 2008, the ministry said in astatement. The ministry said the commuter train service will be onlyfor those working at Kaesong. North Korean workers will beallowed to use the commuter train service, but only withinNorth Korea. South Korean workers currently travel to Kaesong by bus. Economic officials from the two sides agreed the move at ameeting in Kaesong Thursday and Friday to discussdevelopment of the industrial zone, the ministry said. The meeting did not conclude when in 2008 the passengerservice would start, and the two sides agreed to meet againin February discuss details. The rail's opening was part of measures to improve theindustrial complex, a key symbol of reconciliation betweenthe two Koreas that are still technically at war becausetheir 1950-53 Korean War ended in a cease-fire, not a peacetreaty. The opening of the train service was one of the tangibleresults of an October summit between North Korean leaderKim Jong Il and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun thatoutlined a series of joint projects. That summit was onlythe second-ever such meeting between the two Koreas,following the first one in 2000.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/511469