North Korea blocks South workers from Kaesong industrial zone កូរ៉េខាងជើង ហាមកម្មករ កូរ៉េខាងត្បូង ចូលតំបន់គែសង

3 April 2013
BBC News

 

The Kaesong industrial zone is a symbol of inter-Korean co-operation

Inside N Korea

• Vexing problem for US
• Behind threats
• South anxious
• Threat assessed

North Korea is blocking the entry of South Korean workers into a joint industrial zone, in a move seen as further escalating tensions.

Workers were being allowed to leave the Kaesong complex but not cross into it from the South, Seoul's Unification Ministry confirmed.

The Kaesong zone, which is a money-maker for the North, is seen as a key barometer of inter-Korean relations.

The move came as the US called North Korea's recent rhetoric unacceptable.

The joint industrial park is home to more than 100 factories. More than 50,000 North Koreans work there, as well as several hundred South Korean managers who request permission on a daily basis to cross into the zone.

"South Korea's government deeply regrets the entry ban and urges it be lifted immediately," Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-seok told reporters.

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Every attempt by the US and the international community to hold Pyongyang accountable, with sanctions for example, leads to even more erratic behaviour by the North Koreans”

Kim Ghattas BBC state department correspondent

• North Korea - a vexing problem for the US

The entry ban is not unprecedented - South Koreans were briefly denied access in March 2009 because of US-South Korea military exercises.

North Korea, which has been angered by UN sanctions imposed after its recent nuclear test and annual US-South Korea military drills, threatened to shut down the complex last week.

In recent weeks it has also threatened attacks on US military bases in Asia and South Korean border islands. On Tuesday it said it planned to restart its mothballed reactor at Yongbyon - the source of plutonium for its nuclear weapons programme.

Late on Tuesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry called recent North Korean actions "dangerous" and "reckless".

"Let me be perfectly clear here today. The United States will defend and protect ourselves and our treaty ally, the Republic of Korea (South Korea)," he said after talks with his South Korean counterpart Yun Byung-se.

Earlier in the day UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had warned that the crisis had "gone too far" and called for urgent talks with the North.

"Things must begin to calm down, there is no need for the DPRK [North Korea] to be on a collision course with the international community. Nuclear threats are not a game," Mr Ban said.

Wednesday, 03 April 2013 10:31 ប្រែសម្រួលៈ ដើមអម្ពិល-Posted:ID017

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