Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) informed South Korean on Thursday that it will lift cross-border traffic restrictions imposed since December in protest of Seoul's hardline border restriction, officials said.

Pyongyang sent a message to the South Korea, saying it will lift the restrictions starting Friday, officials said, according to Yonhap News Agency.

In the so-called "December 1 Measure", the North restricted the number of times South Korean workers could travel to a joint industrial park in its border town of Kaesong.

However, officials in South Korea said it would take a week until the restrictions is lifted due to "technical reasons", said Yonhap.

(Xinhua News Agency August 20, 2009)