North Korea News » Kaesong News North Korea » Kaesong » History: 10 Years after shutdown, North Korea shows signs of using former joint industrial complex
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 » History: Bitter legacy of rival Koreas’ Kaesong experiment
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 » History: Facts about Kaesong joint industrial estate in North Korea
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 » History: Court orders N. Korea to pay S. Korea 44.6 bln won over 2020 demolition of liaison office
A Seoul court ruled Wednesday that North Korea must pay about $32.5 million in compensation to the South Korean government for the 2020 demolition of an inter-Korean liaison office building in Kaesong ...
News North Korea » Kaesong » History: South Korea court orders North to pay for Kaesong liaison office blast
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 ...
News North Korea » Kaesong » History: King Gongmin and the challenges of reform
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 » History: US, South Korea secretly plan Kaesong occupation if North Korea provokes
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 » History: North Korea repeats threat to shut down Kaesong
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea repeated its threat to shut down Kaesong industrial zone, where 123 South Korean firms operate factories, if the South's government continued to insult it and worsen the ...