South Korea to suspend operations at joint industrial park in North Korea
10 Feb 2016 2:04 PM IST
South stopped operations at the complex so that their investment would not be used by North to fund missile development.
A visitor looks at a map of the Korean peninsula at the exhibition hall of the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. South Korea says it will suspend the operations at a joint industrial park with North Korea in response to the North's recent rocket launch. (Photo: AP)
Seoul: South Korea said Wednesday it would suspend operations at the Kaesong joint industrial complex in North Korea to punish Pyongyang for its latest rocket launch and nuclear test.
"We have decided to stop all operations at the Kaesong industrial complex so that... our investment in the complex would not be used by the North to fund its nuclear and missile development," Hong Yong-Pyo, Seoul's unification minister in charge of cross-border affairs, told a press conference.
( Source : AFP )
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