N. Korea orders military takeover of complex

Luke Skywalker · Feb 11, 2016

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A stressful mix of anger and anxiety is the dominant feeling among scores of South Korean businessmen crossing the border Thursday into North Korea to oversee the death of a decade-long investment. Newslook

South Korean military policemen stand guard at the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Paju, South Korea, Feb. 11, 2016, a day after Seoul announced it will shut down the complex in retaliation for the North's series of provocations.(Photo: KIM CHUL-SOO, EPA)

North Korea on Thursday declared*an industrial complex it jointly ran*with South Korea*a military zone and said it was pulling out all its workers.
It comes after South Korea on Wednesday*said*it would stop operations*at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, just over the North’s border, in response to the recent*rocket launch and*nuclear weapons test by*Pyongyang.
A*statement by*the North's*Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea*carried by the official Korean Central News Agency called the move "a dangerous declaration of war" and*said the site "operated for the common prosperity for more than a decade."
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North Korea said it would*expel South Korean workers from the site*and freeze*the assets, including equipment and products,*of firms*there. Pyongyang*also said it would cut two*communication hotlines with the South once the workers were expelled.
Some 124 South Korean companies employed more than 54,000 North Korean workers at the site, which was the last remaining symbol of reconciliation between Pyongyang*and Seoul, the South’s Yonhap news agency reported.

A picture released by the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the ruling North Korean Workers Party, on Sept. 8, 2015, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center front, and Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, second from right, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and first vice-president of the Council of State, watching an art performance by the Moranbong Band and the State Merited Chorus in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sept. 7, 2015. Bermudez led a Cuban delegation to North Korea to mark the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between North Korea and Cuba. * Rodong Sinmun, European Pressphoto Agency

Men and women pump their fists in the air and chant "defend!" as they carry propaganda slogans calling for reunification of their country during the "Pyongyang Mass Rally on the Day of the Struggle Against the U.S.," attended by approximately 100,000 North Koreans to mark the 65th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War at the Kim Il Sung stadium, Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The month of June in North Korea is known as the "Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism Month" and it's a time for North Koreans to swarm to war museums, mobilize for gatherings denouncing the evils of the United States and join in a general, nationwide whipping up of the anti-American sentiment.* Wong Maye-E, AP

North Koreans gather in front of a portrait of their late leader Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, right, paying respects to their late leader Kim Jong Il, to mark the third anniversary of his death, Wednesday Dec. 17 at Pyong Chon District in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea marked the end of a three-year mourning period for the late leader Kim Jong Il on Wednesday, opening the way for his son, Kim Jong Un, to put a more personal stamp on the way the country is run. * Kim Kwang Hyon, AP

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On Thursday, South Korea began*pulling its citizens out of the complex as South Korean authorities moved to close it, Yonhap said.
North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear weapons test last month*and on Sunday fired*a long-range rocket over Japanese airspace in what is widely believed to be a test of a new missile system. Both actions are banned by*United Nations resolutions.
South Korea's navy on Thursday said it retrieved*what is believed to be debris from the rocket on the ocean floor*of*the Yellow Sea,*west of South Korea, Yonhap reported.
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South Korea said ceasing operations at the complex would stop funds from the park*being used to develop nuclear and missile technology.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed new sanctions against the North*for its violations of international law, targeting Pyongyang’s ability to access the money it needs to develop the weapons.
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