The governor of Gangwon-do Province, called for international efforts, especially from the U.S., to resume South Korean tours to the North's Mount Geumgang.<br />At a press conference today, Choi Moon-soon said he visited Washington last week and delivered a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and also met with government officials and lawmakers there.<br />The governor explained his province faced economic difficulties since the tours came to a halt in 2008.<br />He also stressed the resumption would help break the current diplomatic stalemate.<br />Choi asked Washington to help in resuming the tours to Mount Geumgang, and if that's not possible, then those to Wonsan tourist district.<br />He also proposed forming a tourism zone that connects the eastern mountains of South and North Korea, as well as developing Goseong-gun... county divided at the inter-Korean border as a UN Peace city.<br />
