Up close and personal

President Park Geun-hye hugs Lee Jeong-min, an 11-year-old son of a defector from North Korea, on a train traveling to Baengmagoji Station in Cheorwon, Gangwon, on Wednesday. A groundbreaking ceremony for the restoration of the severed section of the Gyeongwon Line, linking Seoul and Wonsan in North Korea, took place at the station. [Joint Press Corps]