Hundreds of south Korean managers, some wandering in the quiet of the assembly lines, running opponent Tuesday in large-scale industrial park north and South Korea to more than 50000 workers from complex in north Korea. Other managers crammed with their car, and then to the south across the demilitarized zone, the country of manufactured goods.
Facing the threat of flow, north Korea announced on Monday, it is to suspend business, and recall all of the workers from the kaesong industrial complex, a plant north Korea is in the park is the heavily armed border, the cheap local Labour know-how and pump with South Korea about a half billion dollars last year, the value of the goods.
This is the first production has been suspended and complex, almost a decade has always been a fragile, but enduring symbol of the cooperation relations, now seems to be at the bottom.
On Tuesday, leading to kaesong, north Korea's third-largest city, normal air freight and transport materials and personnel. Complex within a couple of a north Korean soldier, dressed in olive green uniforms and Chinese motorcycle that patrol the streets, in a normal working day will be choked out the bus and workers.
South Korea one manager, one of about 400 people remain in kaesong, said he had been sitting in an unheated office has four colleagues at most a day. Usually, they want to busy to check the order and check their clothes. But no work, no TV or radio station, manager said that they didn't do anything, but "think."
"Here I am feeling hungry and cold, he said:" as a soft drizzle falls in kaesong.
Gas and oil from the south to send, usually to keep the heat flow and factories churn, but north Korea has closed its border to the kaesong industrial complex of all the workers and the goods.
"We can't work in kaesong," he said, refused to be identified, because the company regulations. "I did not leave any memories."
Five will share two car and drive across the border on Wednesday.
Pull is that north Korea has launched in recent weeks in Seoul and Washington's aggressive and part of the threat of flood. In UN sanctions to punish for a third nuclear test, on February 12, as well as allied joint military exercises, the United States and South Korea between the invocation of the routines, but Pyongyang deemed ready to invade north angry.
In see stoke fears the latest attempt to north Korea on Tuesday urged visitors to evacuate all foreign companies in Korea, because it says the edge of the north Korea nuclear war. Seoul direct attack is unlikely, analysts believe that the us and south Korean defense officials say they have seen no evidence that Pyongyang is preparing a large-scale military action.
Pyongyang on Monday announced a recall of all from the kaesong industrial park north Korean workers, later will decide whether to shut it down for good. Permanently closed it will sacrifice jobs, in impoverished countries, according to the U.S. department of state's per capita gross domestic product only $1800 a year.
Even pause at a cost of north Korea's money, not only in the short term. Has already left the south Korean company was unable to complete the order, put forward the concerns of the bankruptcy, investment in north Korea and is likely to make them feel twice as much.
"I deeply regret," LiuBing chess, BK electronic co., LTD., President, has entered the kaesong, said in Seoul. North and South Korea, he says, would hurt the company jointly run complex of national relationship when they go bad.
"All the order has been canceled, it must be very worried, my clients, even if they give us new orders, they will not give us all the orders, they used to" liu, said his company supplying electronic components, consumer electronics companies.
Suspend operation, in kaesong South Korea's President, park geun-hye, disappointment, and warned that it would only scare away foreign investors away from north Korea.
"North Korea should stop doing wrong behavior, and for the Korean nationality in the future to make the right choice," parker said at the beginning of a cabinet meeting on a regular basis, according to south Korean media pool in her office the report released on the website.
For South Korea, the meaning of the kaesong industrial complex beyond money. This is the final a symbol of the inter-korean cooperation. From the previous era of cooperation in other projects, such as family reunion, war and tourism space in recent years stopped in a beautiful scenery of the mountains in north Korea.
When it is almost ten years ago, development zone, known as paving the way for the two koreas. South Korea to watch the kaesong, as a deterrent to war, a buffer zone tensions rising through the interaction between them and north Korea and South Korea, although is limited, you can see a channel to the Korean culture.
But even announced on Monday, Pyongyang has been allowed to wither in the kaesong complex operations. Last month, cut off communication helps to standardize border crossings with South Korea at kaesong, and banned from entering north Korea south Korean workers and the goods last week.
Continue to operate, and has been in the kaesong industrial park, south koreans were allowed to stay, but contraction of personnel and materials, is about more than a dozen companies are forced to stop working in kaesong, north Korea had been told to stop work there.
Brief limit the kaesong the heavily fortified border in 2009, but the factory continue to operate.
South Korea's unification ministry said it was responsible for relations with north Korea, 75 south koreans in the complex setting home on Tuesday, leaving about 400. North, they had to leave.
More than 120 south Korean companies in the kaesong industrial complex operations urged north Korea to quickly return to normal operation.
LiuChangGen, kaesong industrial enterprises association, vice President, said: "if this situation continues, the enterprise will face the risk of bankruptcy,".
After an emergency meeting in Seoul on Tuesday, representatives of the company said in a joint statement, they want to send a delegation to north Korea's small and medium-sized companies hope to reopen the complex. Statement also called for South Korea to take "mature, embrace posture" and all of the available measures, in order to help restore normal operation of the kaesong industrial park.
A south Korean daming blue jeans company manager at kaesong, said he plans to stay in complex, in order to protect the assets of the company. About on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, he said, promising between workers from both the current tension will only is temporary.
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