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Korea Times
April 15, 2018
There are several unknowns in the lead-up to the Moon-Kim summit, but one of them is what kind of relationship North Korea really wants to have with the South. This is closely related to the ... Much more so than reviving the Kaesong Industrial Complex, or tourism to Mt Kumgang. Also, as well as being aÃâà...
The Hankyoreh
April 4, 2018
(From left) South Korean composer Yoon Sang, North Korean Culture Minister Park Chun-nam, Samjiyon Orchestra Director Hyun Song-wol, South Korean Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Do Jong-hwan, North Korean Workers' Party Vice Chairman and UFD director Kim Yong-chol, NIS DeputyÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
April 2, 2018
In fact, this reveals another point of contention between the US, Japan and South Korea: which side will reap the economic rewards of North Korea's subjugation? In the past, Pyongyang has offered up its highly exploited working class as a source of ultra-cheap labour, notably at the Kaesong IndustrialÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 28, 2018
Furthermore, Moon could end the summit on a positive note by encouraging Kim to earnestly negotiate with Trump in good faith, with subtle messages communicated to Kim that irreversible progress on denuclearization will bring substantial rewards like the reopening of the Kaesong industrial park and theÃâà...
The National
March 25, 2018
Dialogue between North and South Korea had been completely suspended since the Kaesong Industrial Complex was closed in February 2016 up until ... “After North Korea's military provocations last year, the international community imposed sanctions against it but it criticised them and kept provoking.
Aljazeera.com
March 21, 2018
The last two summits in 2000 and 2007 lead to a thawing of diplomatic ties with a joint venture in the construction of an industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea - but it was later closed in 2016 under South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Historically, relations have been problematic - both Koreas wereÃâà...
Yonhap News
March 20, 2018
Moon underscored the importance of the U.S.-North Korea summit, noting its success may well determine the fate of his country, as well as North Korea. ... exceptional and historical rapprochement between the divided Koreas, such as the construction of a joint industrial complex in Kaesong, North Korea.
The Australian Financial Review
March 16, 2018
Souvenir shops sell conventional gifts like keyrings and T-shirts through to the kitschy: rusty bits of barbed-wire fence and alcohol brewed in North Korea. As part of organised tours, visitors can head to an observatory and peer through binoculars into North Korea and the city of Kaesong, the only city toÃâà...
Yonhap News
March 15, 2018
SEOUL, March 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea on Thursday rejected a request by businessmen to visit North Korea's border city of Kaesong to inspect their facilities at the now-shuttered joint industrial complex. The move comes despite recent inter-Korean rapprochement that culminated in a breakthroughÃâà...
FRANCE 24
March 13, 2018
A rare example of North-South cooperation was the Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea. At its height, Kaesong employed 55,000 North Korean workers in South Korean-owned factories, turning out products from toys to textiles and providing the North with hard currency. The complex shut down inÃâà...
New York Times
March 9, 2018
The talks ushered in an unprecedented rapprochement and various joint projects including a factory park in the North Korean town of Kaesong. But the credibility of Kim Dae-jung's so-called Sunshine Policy was damaged after an investigation revealed that the South Korean government had funneled $450Ãâà...
History
March 9, 2018
“This is literally how the North Korean film The Country I Saw ends,” Lewis wrote. “An American President visits Pyongyang, compelled by North Korea's nuclear and missile programs to treat a Kim as an equal.” The movie poster for the propaganda film 'The Country I Saw' in Kaesong, North Korea, 2012.
Yonhap News
March 8, 2018
At stake is the US$11.1 million porcelain factory he set up at the now-shuttered inter-Korean joint factory park in North Korea's border city of Kaesong. Cho is one of more than 120 South Korean businessmen who were forced to leave behind their equipment, raw materials and finished goods at Kaesong inÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 6, 2018
So while it's worth experimenting with economic disincentives (such as sanctions, especially by North Korea's top trading partner, China) and economic incentives (such as reopening and replicating Kaesong, an industrial complex jointly run by North Korea and South Korea), that's not where the UnitedÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 6, 2018
Despite the collapse of the nationwide food distribution system in North Korea, the government continues to provide monthly rations to Pyongyang residents and allows them to travel anywhere in the country except to the border areas of Chagang province, Rason city, and Kaesong city, sources said.
Yonhap News
December 31, 1999
It has also ruled out the possibility of discussing economic cooperation at the April 27 South-North summit, saying the issue, despite affecting hundreds of South Korean companies kicked out of a joint industrial complex in North Korea's Kaesong, can wait until later talks. The upcoming inter-Korean summit,Ãâà...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
A South Korean soldier pulls barricades across a road leading to North Korea's Kaesong joint industrial complex at a military checkpoint in the border city of ... Amid the thaw in relations and upcoming summits between North Korea and the US, news coverage of US-South Korean joint exercises near theÃâà...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
December 31, 1999
One Chinese tour guide who takes tourists into North Korea grumbled that North Koreans "want us to pay for everything." He was not the only one who complained about the risk of being ripped off by the neighbours, but he told a story to prove his point. On a recent trip to Kaesong in North Korea, he said aÃâà...
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