S.Korea - business ties that might bind

A joint office to promote 'inter-Korean' trade will open just North of Seoul next month. South Korean investment and North Korean low-cost labour could be a perfect match. Optimists may see this as the first signs of an attempt at using economic co-operation to bridge political divides more from the Korea Times... Sceptics will point out that South Korea also asked the North to set up liaison offices in each other's capital this month but got no response more from Reuters...