Limited telephone links established by Koreas

SEOUL: The two Koreas established limited commercial telephone links across their heavily armed border for the first time in their 60 years of division, officials said.

The cross-border phone service is exclusively for South Korean businesses operating in an industrial zone in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, 80 kilometers, or 50 miles, north of Seoul.

Three hundred phone lines were established at the complex, according to Koo Ja Ho, a spokesman for KT, South Korea's main telecommunications company. South Koreans run 15 factories there using cheap North Korean labor. (AP)