KOSONG (South Korea): South Korea opened a new route across its Cold War frontier with the communist North yesterday, as allegations swirled that Seoul bought a landmark inter-Korean summit with murky cash payments to Pyongyang.
The opening of an overland tourism route from South Korea through the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) to the North's scenic Mount Kumgang is a centrepiece project of President Kim Dae-jung's “sunshine policy” of economic co-operation with Seoul's old enemy.
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