S.Korea to continue efforts for dialogue with DPRK

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that the government will continue efforts for dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), vowing to actively prepare for future reunification of the two Koreas from 2015.

"The government will continue efforts for dialogue in terms of inter-Korean relations, with a sincere and broadly open mind and in accordance with principle," Park said during a Cabinet meeting.

Park pledged to actively build preparations for future reunification of the two Koreas from next year, saying South Korea will prepare to provide real assistance for people in the DPRK.

Park has advocated the unified Korea as a "bonanza" for the Korean Peninsula and the region as well as the world.

To prepare for the reunification era, South Korea said Monday in its 2015 economic policy direction that it would push for aggressive exchange and cooperation with the DPRK if inter-Korean relations improve.

As part of those efforts, South Korea would push to hold a general meeting of the Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI) next year in Seoul to help the DPRK develop utilities and infrastructure.

Created in 1995, the GTI is an inter-governmental cooperation mechanism in northeast Asia supported by the UN Development Program (UNDP). Its four members are South Korea, China, Russia and Mongolia. The DPRK took its name off the GTI in November 2009.

South Korea plans to go ahead with the tripartite transport project, which uses the DPRK-Russia railway and port. The test-run was conducted earlier this month by transporting about 40,000 tons of coal from Russian border city of Khasan to the DPRK's port city of Rajin via the 54-kilometer railway before moving it by sea route to Pohang, South Korea's southern port city.

Medical services and nutritional food assistance would also be provided for female DPRK workers and their babies in the Kaesong industrial complex. About 40,000 DPRK workers, which account for 70 percent of the total working at the joint factory park, are reportedly known as women of fertility.

Those would be part of the so-called Dresden Declaration, a three-point proposal made by President Park during her visit to Germany in March. It includes assistance to pregnant women, mothers and babies in the DPRK.

Meanwhile, Park expressed her deep worry about the recent data leakage from nuclear reactors. "Nuclear reactors are the most important security facility directly linked to people's safety. Serious situations that should never have happened were caused in terms of national security," Park said.

Her comments came after a perpetrator posted blueprints and installation diagrams, taken from the Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., the country's nuclear plant operator, on the Internet.

The perpetrator, who identified himself as "president of anti- nuclear group in Hawaii", claimed that he hacked and infiltrated computer systems of Korea Hydro, threatening the second hacking attack and another leakage of some 100,000 pages of undisclosed documents unless three nuclear reactors in the country's southeast are closed by Dec. 25.

Park said people are deeply worried as Korea Hydro's blueprints and internal documents were disclosed on the Internet and the hacker demanded the halting of operations in the nuclear reactors. She called for prosecutors to make a thorough investigation into the accident and identify who is hiding behind the accident if any.

Korea Hydro operates all 23 nuclear reactors of South Korea. Its parent company is Korea Electric Power Corp, the state-run monopoly power supplier.

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