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Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway hits design speed of 350 km/h in test run

STORY: Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway hits design speed of 350 km/h in test run DATELINE: June 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: Jakarta CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of joint commissioning, testing on Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway 2. various of facilities in high-speed railway station STORYLINE: A train running on the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) reached a speed of 350 km/h for the first time in a test run on Thursday. This milestone indicates that the HSR has met the design speed standard and accomplished the interim goals of the dynamic testing, which started on May 22. In the past month, the inspection train used in the testing gradually sped up from 180 km/h to 350 km/h. The functionality, performance, and various system indicators of the HSR have met the design requirements, paving the way for future trials and the official commencement of operation. The train is expected to reach 385 km/h as required in the following test. The high-speed line, a landmark proje

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Personnel training underway in Java town for Indonesia's first high-speed rail

STORY: Personnel training underway in Java town for Indonesia's first high-speed rail DATELINE: June 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:58 LOCATION: Jakarta CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. drone footage of Madiun 2. drone footage of Indonesian Railway Polytechnic 3. various of students in class 4. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian): FARIDA MAKHMUDAH, PPI's head of Finance, General Affairs and Cooperation 5. various of EMU test run STORYLINE: Madiun, a small Indonesian city in East Java Province is home to the Indonesian Railway Polytechnic (PPI). Here, the first training courses are underway for the operation and maintenance personnel of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR). 173 Indonesians attend the classes taught online by experts in China. The courses started this February, with 3 to 6 months of theoretical training targeting drivers, mechanicians, dispatchers, and emergency response personnel. Trainees will leave Madiun with qualifications before being arranged for practical training on the Jakarta-Bandung HSR. S

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China's high-temperature superconducting maglev system conducts operational test

STORY: China's high-temperature superconducting maglev system conducts operational test DATELINE: April 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:28 LOCATION: CHANGCHUN, China CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the test run STORYLINE: China's first high-temperature superconducting maglev system has completed its first operational test. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Changchun, China. (XHTV)

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Qualcomm announces innovative solutions for auto future at CES 2023

STORY: Qualcomm announces innovative solutions for auto future at CES 2023 DATELINE: Jan. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:56 LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, U.S. CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a test run on a vehicle equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride Platforms 2. various of demonstration video provided by Qualcomm STORYLINE: U.S. tech giant Qualcomm announced on Wednesday Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC (System-on-Chip), which is the automotive industry's first scalable family of SoCs to simultaneously support digital cockpit and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC supports mixed-criticality workloads, allowing for digital cockpit, ADAS and automated driving (AD) capabilities to be co-implemented on the same hardware, according to Qualcomm. The company announced the new portfolio on the media day of the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which officially kicks off in Las Vegas on Thursday and runs through Sunday. Qualcomm's Snapdragon Ride Platforms are adopted by leadi

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Japan's lunar explorer robot successfully runs on dunes

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A lunar explorer robot developed by Hakuto, the only Japanese team competing for the Google Luna XPrize that is led by Tohoku University Professor Kazuya Yoshida, makes a successful test run on the Nakatajima Sand Dunes in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 18, 2014. A total of 18 teams are competing in the contest, with a grand prize of 20 million dollars for the first team to land safely on the lunar surface, move 500 meters, and transmit high-definition images and video back to Earth.

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New E7 Series shinkansen makes test-run

NAGANO, Japan - A new E7 Series shinkansen bullet train of East Japan Railway Co. arrives at a platform at Nagano Station on Feb. 7, 2014, for its the first test-run with members of the press. The E7 Series will be put into service on the Nagano Shinkansen route from March 15.

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"Shitamachi" plants develop Japan's 1st bobsled

TOKYO, Japan - Developers of the "Shitamachi Bobsled," including Junichi Hosogai (R) and Satoshi Kosugi (2nd from R), watch it perform a test run at the Nagano Bobsleigh-Luge Park, known as Spiral, in Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2012. Young owners of some small factories in Tokyo's Ota Ward have developed the first made-in-Japan bobsled in the run-up to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

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Railway connecting Russia and N. Korea

RASON, North Korea - A freight train is pictured near Tumangang station in Rason, North Korea, on Oct. 13, 2011, as it moves toward Khasan station in a coastal area of the Russian Far East in a test run on the railway connecting Khasan and North Korea's Rajin port. The test run was conducted Oct. 12-13 for the first time after the completion of the reconstruction of the 55-kilomteter railway, which began in 2008.

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Railway connecting Russia and N. Korea

RASON, North Korea - A freight train is pictured near Tumangang station in Rason, North Korea, on Oct. 13, 2011, as it moves toward Khasan station in a coastal area of the Russian Far East in a test run on the railway connecting Khasan and North Korea's Rajin port. The test run was conducted Oct. 12-13 for the first time after the completion of the reconstruction of the 55-kilomteter railway, which began in 2008.

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Railway connecting Russia and N. Korea

RASON, North Korea - Women in traditional Korean dress wave to a freight train near Tumangang station in Rason, North Korea, on Oct. 13, 2011, as it moves toward Khasan station in a coastal area of the Russian Far East in a test run on the railway connecting Khasan and North Korea's Rajin port. The test run was conducted Oct. 12-13 for the first time after the completion of the reconstruction of the 55-kilomteter railway, which began in 2008.

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Electric car-share scheme in Paris

PARIS, France - Photo taken on Oct. 2, 2011 in Paris shows one of the stations involved in a test run of an electric car-share scheme called Autolib. The scheme is based on the Velib self-service rental bicycle system introduced earlier in the city as an environmentally friendly transport measure. The share scheme for EVs is the world's first, the city claims, and is scheduled to go into full-scale operation in the larger area of Ile-de-France in December.

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plant

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Governor Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference on March 28 that Japan's first plant to extract plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing has cleared the last hurdle for a test run. He said the village of Rokkasho in the prefecture, which hosts the plant, will sign the necessary safety agreement for trial operations with plant operator Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.

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Next-generation bullet train makes 1st test run from Tokyo to Osaka

TOKYO, Japan - Amateur photographers try to take photos of the ''N-700,'' a next-generation shinkansen bullet train, as it departs from JR Tokyo Station on its first test run from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka on July 24.

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Tractors in test-run for Japan's first tractor race

SARABETSU, Japan - Tractors conduct a test-run July 12 in Sarabetsu, Hokkaido, prior to a tractor race to be held the next day. Thirty-six tractors will take part in the race, the first of its kind in Japan.

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Maglev train makes test run

NAGOYA, Japan - Shoichiro Toyoda (R), former President of Toyota Motor Corp. and now head of the organizing body for the planned 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture, and Kohei Abe (C), chairman of the Chubu Economic Federation, take a test run on a high-speed magnetically levitated train Oct. 12, as the project's promoters geared up efforts to have the system put into commercial use for the first time in the world. The promoters aim to have the high speed surface transport (HSST) train in operation for the planned world expo in Aichi Prefecture.

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S. Korea's high-speed train makes test run

SEOUL, South Korea - This photo is of South Korea's first high-speed train which made a test run on a 34-km section of track between Chonan and Taejon at 200 kph. South Korean President Kim Dae Jung rode on the trial run. When completed in 2004, the train will run from Seoul to Pusan in one hour and 56 minutes at a maximum speed of 300 kph.

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Test run for S. Korea's bullet train conducted

SEOUL, South Korea - President Kim Dae Jung (4th from L) joins other dignitaries in a ceremony held in Chonan, South Chungchong Province, on Dec. 16 to mark the start of a test run for South Korea's first bullet train. Later Kim took a trial ride in the rail car that ran a 34-km Chonan-Taejon section at 200 kph. When completed in 2004, the train will run the 412 km from Seoul to Pusan in one hour and 56 minutes at a maximum speed of 300 kph.

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Test run of new elevated train in Thailand

Thailand's first elevated mass transit train undergoes an official test run in Bangkok on Tuesday Oct. 27 with a full load of VIP passengers, the company that operates the train said. The Bangkok Mass Transit System Co. train, which runs on a track 12 meters above the ground, is due to begin operations on Dec. 5 next year to coincide with the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

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Shanghai's first self-driving test lane put into use

STORY: Shanghai's first self-driving test lane put into use DATELINE: July 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:16 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Shanghai's first self-driving test lane 2. various of smart heavy-duty trucks 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI ZHONGXIN, General manager of smart heavy-duty truck assembly line, Shanghai Utopilot Technology Co., Ltd. 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHANG XIANHONG, Deputy general manager of Intelligent Driving Center, Shanghai Utopilot Technology Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: Shanghai's first self-driving test lane was put into use on a cross-sea bridge on Monday. Test run of smart heavy-duty trucks in highway scenario started on the Donghai Bridge. The 30-kilometer bridge has six lanes in total. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays, the outermost lanes in both directions are designated as ones for the test. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LI ZHONGXIN, General manager of smart heavy-duty truck assembly line, Shanghai Utopilot Technology Co., Ltd. "This is the stress t

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Metro rail makes test trip in Dhaka

An electric metro rail train has made its first official journey atop the viaducts in a test run for Dhakaâs new mass transit service. Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 29, 2021. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Metro rail makes test trip in Dhaka

An electric metro rail train has made its first official journey atop the viaducts in a test run for Dhakaâs new mass transit service. Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 29, 2021. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Self-driving test for shinkansen

A shinkansen bullet train leaves JR Niigata Station in Niigata Prefecture in Japan during a test run of a self-driving test in the early hours of Nov. 17, 2021. The test, the first of its kind for shinkansen already in commercial service, began on Oct. 29, and was opened to the media on Nov. 17.

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Metro rail makes test trip in Dhaka

An electric metro rail train has made its first official journey atop the viaducts in a test run for Dhakaâs new mass transit service. Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 29, 2021. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Metro rail makes test trip in Dhaka

An electric metro rail train has made its first official journey atop the viaducts in a test run for Dhakaâs new mass transit service. Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 29, 2021. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Metro rail makes test trip in Dhaka

An electric metro rail train has made its first official journey atop the viaducts in a test run for Dhakaâs new mass transit service. Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 29, 2021. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Metro rail makes test trip in Dhaka

An electric metro rail train has made its first official journey atop the viaducts in a test run for Dhakaâs new mass transit service. Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 29, 2021. Photo by Habibur Rahman/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Next-generation bullet train makes 1st test run from Tokyo to Os

TOKYO, Japan - Amateur photographers try to take photos of the ''N-700,'' a next-generation shinkansen bullet train, as it departs from JR Tokyo Station on its first test run from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka on July 24. (Kyodo)

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Electric vehicle that can run without battery unveiled

The world's first electric vehicle that runs without carrying a battery, developed by Japan's Toyohashi University of Technology and Taisei Corp., carries out a test run in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, on March 18, 2016. The vehicle has special tires that draw power from an electrified road surface. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Local gov't gives nod to safety plan for nuclear processing plan

AOMORI, Japan - Aomori Governor Shingo Mimura speaks at a press conference on March 28 that Japan's first plant to extract plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel for reprocessing has cleared the last hurdle for a test run. He said the village of Rokkasho in the prefecture, which hosts the plant, will sign the necessary safety agreement for trial operations with plant operator Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. (Kyodo)

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Electric car-share scheme in Paris

PARIS, France - Photo taken on Oct. 2, 2011 in Paris shows one of the stations involved in a test run of an electric car-share scheme called Autolib. The scheme is based on the Velib self-service rental bicycle system introduced earlier in the city as an environmentally friendly transport measure. The share scheme for EVs is the world's first, the city claims, and is scheduled to go into full-scale operation in the larger area of Ile-de-France in December. (Kyodo)

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Railway connecting Russia and N. Korea

RASON, North Korea - Women in traditional Korean dress wave to a freight train near Tumangang station in Rason, North Korea, on Oct. 13, 2011, as it moves toward Khasan station in a coastal area of the Russian Far East in a test run on the railway connecting Khasan and North Korea's Rajin port. The test run was conducted Oct. 12-13 for the first time after the completion of the reconstruction of the 55-kilomteter railway, which began in 2008. (Kyodo)

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Railway connecting Russia and N. Korea

RASON, North Korea - A freight train is pictured near Tumangang station in Rason, North Korea, on Oct. 13, 2011, as it moves toward Khasan station in a coastal area of the Russian Far East in a test run on the railway connecting Khasan and North Korea's Rajin port. The test run was conducted Oct. 12-13 for the first time after the completion of the reconstruction of the 55-kilomteter railway, which began in 2008. (Kyodo)

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Railway connecting Russia and N. Korea

RASON, North Korea - A freight train is pictured near Tumangang station in Rason, North Korea, on Oct. 13, 2011, as it moves toward Khasan station in a coastal area of the Russian Far East in a test run on the railway connecting Khasan and North Korea's Rajin port. The test run was conducted Oct. 12-13 for the first time after the completion of the reconstruction of the 55-kilomteter railway, which began in 2008. (Kyodo)

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Japan's lunar explorer robot successfully runs on dunes

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A lunar explorer robot developed by Hakuto, the only Japanese team competing for the Google Luna XPrize that is led by Tohoku University Professor Kazuya Yoshida, makes a successful test run on the Nakatajima Sand Dunes in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 18, 2014. A total of 18 teams are competing in the contest, with a grand prize of 20 million dollars for the first team to land safely on the lunar surface, move 500 meters, and transmit high-definition images and video back to Earth. (Kyodo)

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Self-driving mail delivery robot

Japan Post Co. conducts the first test run on a public road of a self-driving mail delivery robot in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2020, with an eye toward its practical use as early as fiscal 2021.

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Self-driving mail delivery robot

Japan Post Co. conducts the first test run on a public road of a self-driving mail delivery robot in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2020, with an eye toward its practical use as early as fiscal 2021.

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Self-driving mail delivery robot

Japan Post Co. conducts the first test run on a public road of a self-driving mail delivery robot in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2020, with an eye toward its practical use as early as fiscal 2021.

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Self-driving mail delivery robot

Japan Post Co. conducts the first test run on a public road of a self-driving mail delivery robot in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2020, with an eye toward its practical use as early as fiscal 2021.

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Self-driving mail delivery robot

Japan Post Co. conducts the first test run on a public road of a self-driving mail delivery robot in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2020, with an eye toward its practical use as early as fiscal 2021.

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Battery-powered bullet train

Power supply is cut ahead of a test run of the newly developed N700S shinkansen bullet train fitted with an emergency battery system, the first among the world's high-speed trains, in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on July 10, 2019. The battery will be used when the train is stranded, for example, in tunnels or on bridges during a power outage. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Test run of unmanned vehicle

A man monitors Japan's first test run of an unmanned vehicle on a public street, conducted in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Dec. 18, 2017. The experiment, conducted by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, will continue through Dec. 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Test run of unmanned vehicle

An unmanned vehicle runs on a public street in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Dec. 18, 2017 in Japan's first test run of such a vehicle using a public street. The experiment, conducted by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, will continue through Dec. 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Self-driving car test

A self-driving vehicle goes on a test run in Kota, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 14, 2017. It is the first time a self-driving car is being tested on a public road in Japan without anyone in the driver's seat. In an emergency, the brakes can be applied by remote control or by a person in the passenger seat. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Self-driving car test

A self-driving vehicle goes on a test run in Kota, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 14, 2017. It is the first time a self-driving car is being tested on a public road in Japan without anyone in the driver's seat. In an emergency, the brakes can be applied by remote control or by a person in the passenger seat. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Experiment of self-driving cars held in Okinawa

Self-driving electronic carts operate during a test run in Chatan in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on June 26, 2017. The demonstration led by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry was the first of its kind in Japan for such remote controlled vehicles. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Experiment of self-driving cars held in Okinawa

Self-driving electronic carts operate during a test run in Chatan in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa on June 26, 2017. The demonstration led by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry was the first of its kind in Japan for such remote controlled vehicles. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2) South Korea's first high-speed train

SEOUL, South Korea - The first high-speed train of Korea National Railroad during a test run on Feb. 10. The service, to be launched April 1, links Seoul and Pusan in two hours and 40 minutes at at a maximum speed of 300 kilometers per hour, about half the time of the existing service. (Kyodo)

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Tractors in test-run for Japan's first tractor race

SARABETSU, Japan - Tractors conduct a test-run July 12 in Sarabetsu, Hokkaido, prior to a tractor race to be held the next day. Thirty-six tractors will take part in the race, the first of its kind in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Maglev train makes test run

NAGOYA, Japan - Shoichiro Toyoda (R), former President of Toyota Motor Corp. and now head of the organizing body for the planned 2005 World Exposition in Aichi Prefecture, and Kohei Abe (C), chairman of the Chubu Economic Federation, take a test run on a high-speed magnetically levitated train Oct. 12, as the project's promoters geared up efforts to have the system put into commercial use for the first time in the world. The promoters aim to have the high speed surface transport (HSST) train in operation for the planned world expo in Aichi Prefecture.

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S. Korea's high-speed train makes test run

SEOUL, South Korea - This photo is of South Korea's first high-speed train which made a test run on a 34-km section of track between Chonan and Taejon at 200 kph. South Korean President Kim Dae Jung rode on the trial run. When completed in 2004, the train will run from Seoul to Pusan in one hour and 56 minutes at a maximum speed of 300 kph.