The government has confirmed a group of South Korean businessmen and government officials will visit North Korea next week for a field survey regarding the Rajin-Hassan logistics partnership project.
 
In a Wednesday briefing, Unification Ministry vice spokeswoman Park Soo-jin said the 38 member delegation will make a cross border visit to conduct a second inspection of the North's Rajin area.
 
She said the second survey, following the first held in February, will examine the feasibility of the logistics project between Pyongyang and Moscow.
 
She said the officials are scheduled to survey sites at Rajin Port and the envisioned railway section between Rajin and Russia's Hassan from July 15 to the 22.
 
Park said the government will take necessary steps for the field survey to take place.
 
A South Korean consortium signed a memorandum of understanding late last year with Russian Railways. The project aims to develop a 54 kilometer rail track connecting the North and Russia, and modernize the North's Rajin Port into a logistics hub.  

The consortium consists of steelmaker POSCO, the Korea Railroad Corporation and Hyundai Merchant Marine.