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Korea supplies power to North for first time in five decades
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SEOUL - South Korea on Wednesday began supplying electricity to an industrial complex inside communist North Korea, officials said, relinking a cross-border power line severed more than five decades ago. The electricity will power South Korean factories operating in the industrial park at Kaesong, just north of the inter-Korean border, the South's power supplier Korea Electric Power Corp said.

The complex is a joint project between the two Koreas. North Korea is supplying the land and manpower in the form of cheap labor; South Korea is supplying the infrastructure, including electric power. "The power supply has a historic significance because the South's electricity has crossed the border for the first time since the division of the peninsula," the power company said in a statement.

The power line was severed in 1948 when the Korean peninsula was split into communist North and capitalist South. As part of engagement efforts, South Korea has been building an industrial complex in Kaesong, 10 kilometers (six miles) north of the heavily fortified inter-Korean border. So far 15 labor-intensive South Korean businesses have been authorized to move into Kaesong as a part of a pilot project, with three factories already churning out products like clothing and kitchen pots and pans.

The South Korean power company says it will supply 15,000 kilowatts of electricity to Kaesong this year and plans to expand this to 100,000 kilowatts by 2007, when more South Korean firms move in.
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