North Korea One Step Closer to Closing Border to Southern Neighbor
November 24, 2008 – 1:19 pmSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Monday said that it would go ahead with its threat to effectively close its land border with the South, including expelling South Korean managers from an industrial site just inside its border, from December 1.
The reclusive state first warned nearly two weeks ago it would end traffic across the heavily armed border with its wealthy neighbor but this is the first time it has given details of the action it would take.
North Korea’s KCNA news agency said the measures were the first steps “to be taken in connection with the evermore undisguised anti-DPRK (North Korea) confrontational racket of the south Korean puppet authorities.”
It will also suspend all tours to its border city of Kaesong, near the industrial park run by a South Korean firm, and halt rail traffic across the border.
The Kaesong industrial park is the only significant commercial relationship between the Koreas, divided for more than half a century.
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