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2010/02/08 12:00 KST
(LEAD) Divided Koreas hold talks on resuming cross-border tours

  
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- Officials from North and South Korea opened talks Monday on cross-border tours that could generate hard cash for the impoverished communist country if restarted after more than a year of suspension amid fraying inter-Korean ties.

The tours to Mount Kumgang on the east and the historic border town of Kaesong on the west were suspended in 2008 following the shooting death of a South Korean tourist by a North Korean guard at the mountain in July.