Anchor: The government is believed to be reviewing three candidate sites for creating an international peace park in the demilitarized zone, a plan President Park Geun-hye proposed to North Korea Thursday in her Liberation Day speech. It's yet to be seen whether the North, which has opposed the idea, will change its stance following the inter-Korean agreement reached on normalizing the Gaeseong Industrial Complex. 
Our Kim Soyon reports.

Report: A government source says Paju in Gyeonggi Province on the western border front, and Cheorwon and Goseong in Gangwon Province, each on the central and eastern front, are being examined as potential sites for the envisioned DMZ peace park. 

Paju, just north of Seoul, is where the Gyeongui rail and highway connect South and North Korea, and is also home to the Panmunjom truce village, a symbol of the divided Korea. Cheorwon was where the most hard fought battles took place during the Korean War. Vestiges of the war remain in Cheorwon, including the head building of the North's Workers' Party. 

Goseong on the east coast is located near Mount Seorak and the North's Mount Geumgang.  Rail and highways connecting the two Koreas pass through here as well.

The source says the park project can begin in one of the three spots first or it can start simultaneously in multiple locations. 

Since President Park expressed the peace park idea during her speech in May at the U.S. Congress, the Seoul government has been reviewing a detailed action plan. The chosen site for the park will be free of South and North Korean troops, military equipment, land mines and barbed wire fences. 

To create a park in the DMZ, North Korea's cooperation is essential.

The North in 2007 stated its opposition to the peaceful use of the DMZ.

But some observers say this may change on the heels of the inter-Korean agreement struck on reopening the Gaeseong complex. 

A South Korean official says we should wait for the North's response, and if it's willing, inter-Korean talks can begin on the park project. 
Kim Soyon, KBS World Radio News.