According to Yonhap:
Despite rising cross-border tension, the trade between South and North Korea reached a record high last year, government data showed Saturday.
The volume of trade between the two Koreas reached US$1.97 billion in 2012, inching up from the previous record of $1.91 billion in 2010, according to the data by the Korea Customs Service.
South Korean products worth $896.26 million were shipped to North Korea, up 13.4 percent from the previous year.
The amount of products that came here from the North jumped 19.3 percent on-year to $1.07 billion, according to the data.
A total of 99 percent of the volume was shipped through a land route linked to the inter-Korean industrial complex in the North’s border town of Kaesong.
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Inter-Korean trade hits record high in 2012
Yonhap
2013-2-9
