Our top story this afternoon...<br />South Korea has marked the groundbreaking of a project to restore an inter-Korean railroad that has been severed since the division of the two Koreas 70 years ago.<br />The 220-kilometer-long Gyeongwon Line, which opened in 1914, was mainly used to transport goods from Seoul's Yongsan Station to Wonsan City now in North Korea.<br />After the railway was severed in 1945 and partially destroyed during the Korean War, the South Korean government first restored the five-and-a-half-kilometer section connecting the South's Sintanni and Baengmagoji in 2012.<br />The latest project will restore the line from Baengmagoji to the South's northernmost area closest to the Military Demarcation Line. <br />The South Korean government plans to complete work on the rest of the line stretching into the North, after reaching an agreement with Pyongyang.<br />Speaking at the ceremony, President Park Geun-hye said re-connecting the railroad will help heal the Korean people's wounds from their division and offer a starting point for the two Koreas' unification.<br />She also expressed hopes for the restored railway to contribute to the success of her so-called "Eurasia Initiative" of linking logistics and energy infrastructure across the two continents.
