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News North Korea » Kaesong » Culture: 10 Years after shutdown, North Korea shows signs of using former joint industrial complex

News channel or source: https://www.voanews.com/a/north-korea-shows-signs-of-using-former-joint-industrial-complex/8210532.html

Published on: Monday 12 October 2026

Once a symbol of economic cooperation between the two Koreas, the Kaesong Industrial Complex brought together South Korean companies and North Korean workers. It has remained a symbol of the breakdown ...

News North Korea » Kaesong » Culture: Bitter legacy of rival Koreas’ Kaesong experiment

News channel or source: https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/bitter-legacy-of-rival-koreas-kaesong-experiment/

Published on: Sunday 10 July 2016

Five months after Seoul shut down a jointly run industrial park in North Korea, South Korean factory owners are still waging a defiant campaign to reopen what was the last major symbol of inter-Korean ...

News North Korea » Kaesong » Culture: Facts about Kaesong joint industrial estate in North Korea

News channel or source: https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/facts-about-kaesong-joint-industrial-estate-in-north-korea/

Published on: Tuesday 09 February 2016

South Korea announced on Wednesday it would completely shut down all operations at a jointly run industrial park in North Korea to punish Pyongyang for its latest rocket launch and nuclear test. The ...

News North Korea » Kaesong » Culture: King Gongmin and the challenges of reform

News channel or source: https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10903172

Published on: Wednesday 14 October 2026

This spring in Kaesong, I stood before Hyonjongnung, the paired tombs of King Kongmin and Princess Noguk. Their symmetrical burial mounds, carved stone screens ...

News North Korea » Kaesong » Culture: US, South Korea secretly plan Kaesong occupation if North Korea provokes

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/politics/international-relations/us-south-korea-secretly-plan-kaesong-occupation-if-north-korea-provokes/ar-AA2a2RqC

Published on: Wednesday 12 August 2026

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Kim Moon-hwan, who served as the South Korean company commander of the Joint Security Area (JSA) during the August 18, 1976, ‘inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjom axe ...

News North Korea » Kaesong » Culture: South Korea court orders North to pay for Kaesong liaison office blast

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/south-korea-court-orders-north-to-pay-for-kaesong-liaison-office-blast/ar-AA2cj9YM

Published on: Tuesday 15 September 2026

A South Korean court has ordered North Korea to pay 44.6 billion won (USD 32.5 million) for blowing up an inter-Korean liaison office in 2020, in a symbolic ruling that comes amid a prolonged freeze ...