North Korean Workers Anxious about Joint Factory Complex
- 14 years ago
South Korean workers say North Korean workers are concerned about the future of a joint factory complex. That’s because tensions are escalating on the Korean peninsula.
Despite the looming risks, South Korean workers continued to cross the North-South Korean border on Monday. They are going to and from the joint factory complex in Kaesong, North Korea.
North Korea’s threatened to scrap the agreements that guarantee safe border crossings.
A South Korean worker who returned from the North says North Korean workers were anxious to know about the future of the complex, as tension between the two Koreas escalates.
Seoul's Yonhap News Agency on Monday quoted a South Korean Unification Ministry official who says North Korea wants to keep the complex going and would ban South Korean firms from taking factory equipment out of the complex.
The agency quoted the official saying an unidentified North Korean official had made the remarks to a South Korean staffer at a joint commission handling the operation of the factory.
The move to let in workers suggests that the North, despite its latest furious rhetoric after the South accused it of sinking a warship, is being careful not to take steps that will cause it real material damage.
Despite the looming risks, South Korean workers continued to cross the North-South Korean border on Monday. They are going to and from the joint factory complex in Kaesong, North Korea.
North Korea’s threatened to scrap the agreements that guarantee safe border crossings.
A South Korean worker who returned from the North says North Korean workers were anxious to know about the future of the complex, as tension between the two Koreas escalates.
Seoul's Yonhap News Agency on Monday quoted a South Korean Unification Ministry official who says North Korea wants to keep the complex going and would ban South Korean firms from taking factory equipment out of the complex.
The agency quoted the official saying an unidentified North Korean official had made the remarks to a South Korean staffer at a joint commission handling the operation of the factory.
The move to let in workers suggests that the North, despite its latest furious rhetoric after the South accused it of sinking a warship, is being careful not to take steps that will cause it real material damage.