Anchor: Drinking water produced by a South Korean company near Mount Baekdu on the North Korea-China border has arrived in Busan after passing through the North’s Rajin Port. The move comes as private exchanges between the two Koreas are actively being held ahead of high-level South-North talks that will open on Friday.
Our Bae Joo-yon has more.
 
Report: Drinking water produced from Mount Baekdu arrived at the Port of Busan on Monday after passing through North Korea’s Rajin Port.
 
The water was produced by a South Korean company from the Chinese side of the mountain.
 
The transportation of the water, loaded in ten containers, was carried out as part of the third pilot shipment of the Rajin-Khasan logistics project.
 
The latest cargo was the first container freight for the purpose of private business that entered South Korea after passing through Rajin Port since the South imposed the May 24 economic sanctions on the North in 2010.
 
The Unification Ministry will decide whether or not to allow additional transportations after analyzing whether two ships can simultaneously dock at Rajin Port as well as the port's cargo handling capacity.
 
Meanwhile, language scholars from the two Koreas began discussions in China on Monday on details of an inter-Korean project to create a joint dictionary.
 
Until Sunday, the two sides will review the drafts produced by each side of about 20-thousand words to be included in the dictionary. The two Koreas plan to complete a 330-thousand-word joint dictionary by 2019.
 
The meeting comes after a group of South Korean Catholic bishops visited North Korea last week and discussed promoting cooperation among Catholics of the two Koreas.
 
With such inter-Korean exchanges being held at the private level, the Unification Ministry is preparing for South-North vice-ministerial talks that will open on Friday at the North’s border city of Gaeseong.
Bae Joo-yon, KBS World Radio News.