North Korea News » Kaesong News North Korea » Kaesong » People: 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 » People: North Korea to resume loudspeaker broadcasts by October
Kim Yo-jong, Vice Department Director of the Workers’ Party of Korea, criticized South Korea’s warning broadcasts and warning shots in response to North Korean troops crossing the Military Demarcation ...
News North Korea » Kaesong » People: NHK: North Korea conducting consecutive blasts south of Kaesong to cut roads, fortify border
North Korea has been observed conducting what appears to be fortification blasting near Kaesong, north of Ganghwado, NHK reported Monday. The Japanese broadcast ...
News North Korea » Kaesong » People: 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 » People: 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 » People: North Korea Ramps Up Border Defenses with Explosions Near Gaeseong
North Korea has been observed conducting a series of explosive demolitions along a riverside south of Gaeseong, directly across from South Korea's Ganghwa Island. Japan's NHK speculates that these ...
News North Korea » Kaesong » People: 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 » People: South Korea’s loudspeakers face questions over reach into North
SEOUL--The loudspeakers deployed by South Korea to wage psychological warfare against North Korea faced audits and legal battles claiming they are too quiet, raising questions over how far into the ...
News North Korea » Kaesong » People: North Korea blows up parts of inter-Korean roads in a symbolic display of anger
SEOUL--In a symbolic display of anger, North Korea on Tuesday blew up the northern section of unused roads that once linked it with the South, with the rivals exchanging threats days after the North ...
News North Korea » Kaesong » People: 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 ...