Delegates of South and North Korea met today to fine tune details for a scheduled testing this week of train service along two newly built cross-border rail tracks for the first time in more than half a century, South Korean officials said. According to the North Korean news agency Yonhap, the working-level meeting for Thursday's scheduled test run was attended by the South's officials from the transportation and unification ministries at an inter-Korean economic consultation office at Kaesong, a North Korean city near the border. The meeting, originally scheduled for yesterday in Kaesong, was rescheduled for today at the request of North Korea, which gave no reason for the one-day delay. During the meeting, the two sides exchanged lists of dignitaries to be on the test run, approximately 100 from each side, officials said. After finalizing the plan, the two Koreas plan to issue a joint statement on the details of the test run, they added. High-level military officials of both Koreas met at the border village of Panmunjom earlier this week and agreed to provide one-time security guarantees for the first train service scheduled for Thursday across the heavily armed border. -- SPA
