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...North Korea MOURNING AND ANGER A North Korean soldier shot and killed Park Wang Ja, 53, a South Korean tourist who apparently wandered into a restricted military zone near Mount Kumgang on July 11, hours before South Korean President Lee Myung Bak proposed reconciliation talks with the North. Seoul responded by halting tours to the area, while Pyongyang rejected Lee's overture and demanded an apology for the incident...
...consist mainly of investments by individual companies. But in South Korea, economic engagement with the D.P.R.K.--the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as the North calls itself--is government policy. South Korea has invested heavily in two well-known public-private development projects: a resort area at Mount Kumgang and an industrial zone in Kaesong, about six miles (10 km) north of the Demilitarized Zone. There, 13,300 North Korean workers earning $70 a month churn out exports in conditions a former Western diplomat compares to a labor camp's. So far, 15 South Korean companies have opened factories...
...most important change is the arrangement of tourism to the Kumgang Mountain...The visitors sang together with North Korean tour guides," Cho said. "No one could have imagined such a thing even one year...
...most important change is the arrangement of tourism to the Kumgang Mountain...The visitors sang together with North Korean tour guides," Cho said. "No one could have imagined such a thing even one year...
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