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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 » Politics: 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 » Politics: 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 » Politics: North Korea blows up strategic point on Southern border in Kaesong
North Korea has blown up the liaison office it shares with its enemy neighbour South Korea, three days after Kim Jong-un’s heir apparent threatened to destroy the “useless” building.
News North Korea » Kaesong » Politics: 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 » Politics: 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 44.6 billion won (US$32.5 million) in compensation to the South Korean government for the 2020 demolition of an inter-Korean liaison ...
News North Korea » Kaesong » Politics: 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 » Politics: North Korea's barbecue boom: Taste of prosperity or widening divide?
North Korea is opening upscale Korean barbecue restaurants at a remarkable pace, in what analysts see as an effort to showcase rising living standards, capture ...
News North Korea » Kaesong » Politics: 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 » Politics: South Korea's unification minister opposes resuming DMZ broadcasts
South Korean Unification Minister Chung opposed calls to resume loudspeaker broadcasts toward North Korea following a DMZ land mine explosion.