Ten South Korean officials are on a one-day trip to North Korea..... for an on-site inspection of the western Gyeongui highway,.... as part of efforts for an ambitious inter-Korean road connection project.
Officials from Seoul's Unification Ministry and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport,... will be inspecting some four-kilometers of highway in the Gaeseong area.
They crossed the border this morning,... and are expected back at around 5 P.M., Korea time.
Unlike the joint study for the Gaeseong-Pyeongyang road conducted in August,... today's inspection will be done without surveying equipment.
The inspection comes just a couple of days ahead of the groundbreaking ceremony for inter-Korean railway and road connections that's scheduled for this Wednesday.