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2010/02/08 10:32 KST
Divided Koreas hold talks on resuming cross-border tours

  
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- Officials from North and South Korea opened talks Monday on ways to resume suspended cross-border tours that could generate much-needed cash for the impoverished communist neighbor.

The tours to Mount Kumgang on the east and the historic border town of Kaesong on the west were suspended in 2008 due to deteriorating ties between the two Koreas and the shooting death of a South Korean tourist by a North Korean guard at the mountain.