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27 Mar 2013

Despite threats, North Korea keeps border factories open

Author: admintech | Filed under: World

A South Korean soldier stands to check vehicles heading to the Kaesong Industrial Complex in PajuBy Ju-min Park PAJU, South Korea (Reuters) – A heavily armed border crossing between North and South Korea that allows the North access to $2 billion in trade a year, one of its few avenues to foreign currency, remained open on Thursday despite Pyongyang's move to cut communications. North Korea on Wednesday severed the last of three telephone hotlines with South Korea as it readied its troops to face what it believes to be "hostile" action from Seoul and Washington. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/despite-threats-north-korea-keeps-border-factories-open-015119364.html