New Phones Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptSEOUL: North Korea has tightened controls on mobile phones at a South Korean-funded industrial estate amid worsening cross-border ties, officials said Wednesday. Read the rest of this great post here
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
SEOUL – North Korea Wednesday made a high-level inspection of a Seoul-funded joint industrial estate in Kaesong, some two weeks after ordering hundreds of South Koreans to quit the complex, officials said. Lieutenant-General Kim Yong-Chol, t
ROK Drop (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
It makes you wonder how bad things in North Korea may be getting when even workers specially selected to work at the Kaesong Industrial Complex decides to defect: A North Korean defector who escaped from an inter-Korean industrial complex in the border city of Kaesong where she was employed remains in a third country, a South [...]
Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 16/12/2008
... it would be the first attempted defection involving a North Korean working at the jointly run Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea, ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyeon said. The 27-year-old has been hiding in China since fleeing the Kaesong complex near the North-South border in September, said Kim Yong-hwa, a North Korean defector-turned-activist now living in South Korea. Kim said...
OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
The 27-year-old woman, whose identity was withheld for her safety, fled Kaesong in late September and has since asked for help to travel to South Korea, according to Kim Yong-hwa, who leads a Seoul-based civic group advocating for the human rights of North Korean defectors. []
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
South Korea's Unification Ministry said it could not immediately confirm the claim. But if true, it would be the first attempted defection involving a North Korean working at the jointly run Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea, ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyeon said.
OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Why do I do this every day, you ask? (Again with those straw-man questions I plant in your heads.) I do it because of stories like this. South Korean firms that lost big on the Kaesong bubble are demanding compensation from, or possibly suing, the government. So would the government in the caption [...]
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... it would be the first attempted defection involving a North Korean working at the jointly run Kaesong industrial complex near the North-South border, ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyeon said.The 27-year-old has been hiding in China since fleeing the Kaesong complex in September and crossing the Tumen River into a Chinese border town, said Kim Yong-hwa, a North Korean defector-turned-activist...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... it would be the first attempted defection involving a North Korean working at the jointly run Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea, ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyeon said.The 27-year-old has been hiding in China since fleeing the Kaesong complex near the North-South border in September, said Kim Yong-hwa, a North Korean defector-turned-activist now living in South Korea.Kim said...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... it would be the first attempted defection involving a North Korean working at the jointly run Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea, ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyeon said.
The 27-year-old has been hiding in China since fleeing the Kaesong complex near the North-South border in September, said Kim Yong-hwa, a North Korean defector-turned-activist now living in South Korea.
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Activist: NKorean worker flees Kaesong factoryBy HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated Press WriterSEOUL, South Korea -- A North Korean who was working at an enclave of South Korean factories in her communist country has defected to China with the aim of seeking asylum in the South, a South Korean civic activist said Wednesday.South Korea's Unification Ministry said it could not immediately confirm the claim....
OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
North Korea has allowed 880 South Korean people to stay in the inter-Korean industrial complex in the border city of Kaesong, far less than expected by the South, South Korea’s Unification Ministry spokesman said Monday. North Korea verbally informed South Korea of its decision Sunday night, Kim Ho Nyoun told a press briefing. [...]
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
South Koreans working at an industrial facility jointly run by North Korea are returning home as relations between the neighbors worsen, officials say.North Korea has moved to slash the number of South Korean employees allowed to work to the facility in Kaesong and say they will enforce a complete border crossing freeze starting Monday. Nearly 900 South Koreans, including nine government officials,...
Japundit (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
"A South Korean freight train chugged its way across the heavily fortified border into North Korea yesterday for what may be its last run. The North has put an end to the rail link that had raised hopes of reconciliation between the Cold War foes, accusing Seoul of seeking a "confrontational" policy toward it. read more
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- South Koreans working at an industrial facility jointly run by North Korea are returning home as relations between the neighbors worsen, officials say. North Korea has moved to slash the number of South Korean employees allowed to work to the facility in Kaesong and say they will enforce a complete border crossing freeze starting Monday. Nearly 900 South Koreans, including...
