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(2nd LD) Koreas hold talks on resuming cross-border tours
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- Officials of the divided Koreas opened talks Monday on cross-border tours that could help the cash-strapped North ease its deepening economic trouble if the South agreed to restart them after more than a year of suspension.
The tours to Mount Kumgang on the east coast and the historic border town of Kaesong near the west coast had helped Pyongyang raise hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars until their suspension in 2008 after the shooting death of a South Korean tourist by a North Korean guard at the mountain.
Chun Hae-sung, spokesman for Seoul's Unification Ministry, said his side demanded at the meeting in Kaesong that North Korea allow South Korea to conduct an on-site investigation into the death.
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