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Korea: S Korea sends communication equipment to DPRK.


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The South Korean government on Wednesday began to send 850-million-won (around 714,000 U.S. dollars) worth of cross-border communication equipment to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea The People's Republic of Korea (PRK) was a short-lived provisional government organized to take over control of the country after the Surrender of Japan at the end of the Pacific War. It existed in August and September 1945.  (DPRK) in a bid to modernize mod·ern·ize  
v. mo·dern·ized, mo·dern·iz·ing, mo·dern·iz·es

v.tr.
To make modern in appearance, style, or character; update.

v.intr.
To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style.
 an inter-Korean military communication line.

The equipment was regarded as the latest of a series of small-scale aid provided by Seoul to Pyongyang. According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung, the South Korean side will deliver optical cables and other communication equipment to the DPRK side on Wednesday and Thursday.

The two Koreas will respectively carry out the line upgrades at their sides and later connect them at the military demarcation line, and the operation would be completed before the severely cold season comes, Seoul's officials said earlier.

The upgrade project was tentatively agreed between the two sides in 2007, but was deferred after their relations soured following the inauguration of Seoul's Lee Myung-bak
This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.


Lee Myung-bak (Korean: 이명박, Hanja: 李明博, born December 19, 1941 in Hirano, Osaka, Osaka, Japan) is a former mayor of Seoul, the Republic of Korea and
 administration in early 2008.

The military line near the East Sea is the main inter-Korean communication channel used in exchanging lists of people People denotes a group of humans, either with unspecified traits, or specific characteristics (e.g. the people of Spain or the people of the Plains). Lists of people include:

(Fictional characters such as King Arthur are not included in these lists.
 who travel in and out of the Kaesong industrial complex in the DPRK.

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