North Korea shut down access to a joint venture factories on Wednesday, earning $2.01 billion, the poverty status of trade, but will be allowed hundreds of south koreans to return home, officials said, to relieve the worry that they could have been taken hostage.
In the kaesong industrial park, factory is still considered the operation, but stop from north Korea's decision was in another sign of growing tensions on the Korean peninsula. On Tuesday, Pyongyang said it would restart the storage of nuclear reactors.
The industrial park has officially stop operation because it was formally established in August 2000, part of efforts to improve relations between north and south of the Korean peninsula. The hotel has 123 companies and 123 of north and South Korea business owners and managers of the hundreds of staff.
More than 800 people in South Korea to spend the night in the park, is one of the world's most heavily armed border in northern. South Korea's unification ministry asked park is opened.
South Korea's yonhap news agency reported that the ministry later said, at 5 PM, the rest of the staff of 46 people will return to stop there.
North Korea threatened nuclear attack by the United States Pacific bases and missile attacks, fresh United Nations sanctions, for the country's third nuclear weapons test in February. Pyongyang also said that in the state of war with South Korea.
In response, Washington has cemented its troops in the region. Additional deployment also coincided with the annual war games with South Korea, north Korea claims a prelude to invasion.
Waiting for the hundreds of south koreans on Wednesday there is a sense of foreboding, the kaesong industrial park will be permanently closed, due to a fatal blow, this is the rest such as the cooperation between the Korean peninsula.
"Collapse of trust between north and south, and we have our buyers trust. We have to end the damage," Li Enheng, who runs a clothing company in kaesong told Reuters that the customs office in the town on the border, south of the slope.
Lee's business staff of more than 600 north koreans make 130 dollars a month on average.
Another enterprise, director zhang, Sun You, said the north Korean workers don't friendly since last weekend, has been more and more attention to send supplies difficulties and oil could make business soon.
South Korean companies in the area, the worker's salary pay totaling more than $800000 a year. The kaesong project accounted for nearly $2 billion a year, north Korea's trade Numbers according to South Korea.
's unification ministry says it has a contingency plan to handle any hostages, and it should happen, but did not elaborate. North Korea held a south Korean hostages in 2009 months later, workers alleged defamation of the north.
Most experts did not expect to Pyongyang hazard area, it brings money to inches
"This seems to be a temporary measure, designed to increase tensions with the south, has announced that it is entering a combat, and keep the laughed at the kaesong industrial park for economic reasons, said:" chang sheng chang Seoul the sejong institute, a think-tank.
"At least until end of April, (Korean/American) at the end of the drill, the north is possible, because it has in the past few years to keep tension. The news is that it can handle a major blow to the kaesong industrial park."
The kaesong industrial complex closed news hurt South Korea financial markets. Won a currency trading at 6 early half month low.
Main test
North Korea's young leader, Kim jong UN, 30, has gradually increased the tensions, since he took office in December 2011, is held twice a long-range rocket launch in defiance of UN sanctions.
On Tuesday, north Korea said it would restart sealed its yongbyon nuclear reactor to provide plutonium nuclear weapons program and the purpose of power generation.
Despite doubts, the young king will actually launch a military strike, his action constitutes a major challenge in South Korea's new President park HuiGang took office after a week, on February 12, north Korea's nuclear test.
China, north Korea's closest ally, also see. Beijing is in north Korea's decision to nuclear power plant on Tuesday, the move effectively sorry hope to restart nuclear talks.
U.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon said north Korea's crisis has gone too far, he called for dialogue.
"Nuclear is not a game. Positive rhetoric and military posture only leads to the action, and fuel fears and instability," ban ki-moon, South Korea, told a news conference during the period of Andorra.
 



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