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Kaesong
Kaesong is a special administrative region of North Korea formed in 2002 featuring the Kaesong Industrial Park, a collaborative economic development zone with South Korea. The park is located 10 kilometres north of the Korean Demilitarised Zone and allows South Korean companies to employ cheap skilled labour whilst providing North Korea with an important source of foreign currency.
Wreckage of a drone that North Korea claims originated from South Korea is shown in this composite photo, released on Saturday. Photo: KCNA/AFP
North Korea

‘Gang of hooligans’: rebuke from North Korea signals icy ties with South

The unusually coarse language from Kim Jong-un’s sister shows that Pyongyang has no intention of reconciling with Seoul, experts say.

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North Korea

Will Chinese tourists return to North Korea as travel resumes?

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North Korea

North Korea scraps all economic cooperation with South in further blow to ties

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Coronavirus pandemic

North Korea blames Covid outbreak on ‘alien things’ near South Korea border

In an apparent move to shift blame for a wave of infections, state media cited a soldier and a child, 5, who touched unidentified materials before falling ill.

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Workers disinfect the interior of Pyongyang International Airport as part of the country’s anti-coronavirus measures. Photo: KCNA via KNS/AFP
Extreme fitness

Could North Korea join the trail running boom?

A trail race in 2015 could be a sign of more to come, as North Korea prepares to open to tourists post-pandemic.

Coronavirus pandemic

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The Philippines records 3,561 new infections on Thursday, taking its national tally to 119,460, more than Indonesia’s total of 118,753 cases.

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North Korea

Defector swam back to North Korea to flee sex assault allegations

South Korea has identified the man only by his surname, Kim, and said he was the ‘runaway’ who North Korea accuses of illegally crossing the border last week with symptoms of Covid-19.

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A soldier stands at a fence at the demilitarised zone separating North and South Korea, where a 24-year-old defector is believed to have swum back to the North. Photo: AFP
North Korea

The defectors whose airborne propaganda enraged North Korea

One is an evangelist with a three-tonne truck, while another has a propensity for ‘media stunts’. All operate amid debate on whether it is even the best way to reach out to those in the North.

South Korean businessmen remain bitter about government’s ‘empty promises’ after Kaesong complex shut down

A glimpse inside Kaesong, North Korea's curious capitalist outpost

In an impoverished nation, and just a few minutes' drive from the world's most heavily armed border, stands an unlikely outpost of capitalism.

Workers at a clothing factory in Kaesong. Photo: Xinhua

Two Koreas restart operations at Kaesong industrial zone

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Businessmen and women walk through a border checkpoint in Paju near the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas as people head back to the North's Kaesong industry complex. Photo: AFP

Two Koreas begin talks on reopening Kaesong joint industrial zone

North and South Korea held the first meeting yesterday of a committee tasked with reopening their Kaesong joint industrial zone - five months after it was shut down amid soaring military tensions.

Update | Koreas reach agreement to reopen Kaesong industrial zone

North and South Korea reached an agreement yesterday to reopen the Kaesong joint industrial zone - closed by Pyongyang in April at the height of soaring military tensions.

South Korea businessmen call for Kaesong deal on eve of last-ditch talks

Hundreds of South Korean representatives from Kaesong-based companies hold a rally at Imjingak peace park in Paju on Wednesday, urging the swift resumption of operations at their abandoned plants. Photo: AFP

South Korea offers final talks on Kaesong joint industrial zone

South Korea has proposed "final" talks with the North over the fate of the shuttered Kaesong joint industrial zone, suggesting it may permanently close the estate if the negotiations fail.

Ryoo Kihl-jae, South Korea's unification minister, said Seoul will extend a 'final offer' for talks of the suspended industrial complex in North Korea's border town of Kaesong. Photo: EPA

Update | Shoving match as Korean talks on Kaesong collapse

North Korea on Friday blasted South Korea’s “arrogant” attitude after talks on salvaging the jointly-run Kaesong industrial zone collapsed, sparking a shoving match between officials from both sides.

Koreas fail to reach deal on jointly-run Kaesong industrial zone

South Korea said talks with North Korea on reopening a jointly-run industrial estate ended without agreement on Wednesday, but the two sides agreed to meet again next week.

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Two Koreas start fresh talks on joint Kaesong industrial site

Head of the South Korean delegation Suh Ho at customs office before talks begin with North Korean delegates on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua

Two Koreas agree to allow managers to return to Kaesong industrial park

North and South Korea open rare talks on Kaesong joint industrial zone

The talks - delayed by nearly two hours - follow months of friction and threats of war from Pyongyang after its February nuclear test led to tougher UN sanctions, further squeezing its struggling economy.

North Korea

South Korea rejects ‘incomprehensible’ North demands

“The North’s demand ... is completely incomprehensible and unfair,” said Kim Hyung-Seok, spokesman for Seoul’s Unification Ministry. Photo: EPA
North Korea

South Korea sees progress on workers’ return from North

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The Grand Unification Bridge, leading to the Kaesong industrial complex inside the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is seen in Paju, north of Seoul. Photo: Xinhua
North Korea

Last South Korean workers to leave Kaesong

North Korea

South Korea offers North talks over Kaesong, warns on refusal

Ban Ki-moon

UN's Ban Ki-moon urges North Korea to consider South’s dialogue offer

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon vowed to advance “meaningful dialogue” between the two Koreas. Photo: Xinhua

North blocks South Koreans taking supplies to Kaesong workers

North Korea barred a delivery of supplies to South Koreans in the closed Kaesong industrial zone yesterday, as the South's president said it was time to stop rewarding Pyongyang's provocations. A delegation of 10 businessmen representing the 123 South Korean firms in Kaesong had applied to travel to the zone to bring food and other daily necessities to their staff and to inspect their facilities.

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South Korean cars, carrying sacks of clothes made in the Kaesong joint industrial complex, arrive at the border city of Paju. Photo: AFP
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North Korea bars South delegation from joint zone

North Korea

North Korea dismisses South’s dialogue offer on Kaesong

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