First NKorean ship in SKorea for 50 years

Yonhap News Agency says the docking of the North Korea-registered cargo ship on Sunday is the latest symbolic move in inter-Korean reconciliation efforts.

The 1,853-ton freighter Kangsong, carrying a 27-member crew, docked at the port in the southeastern city of Busan around and will make three round trips between Busan and North Korea's northeastern port city of Rajin every month beginning

this week, Yonhap reports.

It is the first time a North Korean cargo ship made a call at Busan since the 1950-1953 Korean War.

Inter-Korean contact has increased since the 2000 summit between then South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in North Korea's capital Pyongyang.

Last week, North and South Korean trains crossed the military demarcation line in trial runs of reconnected cross-border railways, the first of its kind since the railways were severed during the Korean War.