No Trains Either
Well, at least he makes the trains run on time. Nope, can’t do that either
SEOUL, May 24 (Yonhap) — North Korea on Wednesday called off scheduled test runs of cross-border railways, an official at the Unification Ministry said.
The cancellation came one day before the Koreas were set to test the railways.
The South Korean government expressed deep regrets in a statement read by Vice Unification Minister Shin Un-sang during a press briefing.
Shin said the North’s chief delegate to inter-Korean talks about linking the railways sent a telegram early Wednesday, saying it is calling off the test runs on the eastern and western lines.
“The North Korean side said in a telegram that it is no longer able to conduct the railway tests as scheduled because of the lack of a military agreement to guarantee the safety (of people taking part) in the trial runs and unstable conditions in the South,” Shin told the news briefing.
The North’s delegation to the railway talks is headed by Park Jong-song, director of an external relations bureau at the country’s Railway Ministry, according to the Unification Ministry.
In the statement, the Seoul government criticized the last-minute cancellation, labeling the North’s cited reasons as absurd, or preposterous. “Speaking preposterously about unstable conditions in the South is especially unreasonable.”
Unstable conditions? Talk about projection. If the Unification Minstry cannot even get symbolic gestures such as a railroad link, then why even bother dealing with the North. I hear the rails between China and North Korea are going very well.
