Military officials from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
has started an inspection on a joint industrial complex located in the border
town of Kaesong, which local media here says raises concern that the country might be moving to tighten border control.
A group of eight DPRK officials, including a policy director of the National
Defense Commission, have visited the complex Monday and continued
inspection there, Seoul's Yonhap News Agency reported citing an unnamed
unification ministry official.
At a meeting with business operators there, the officials raised an issue of
anti- Pyongyang propaganda campaigns South Korean civic group members
have launched, a long-standing bone of contention between the two sides,
the official told Yonhap.
The ongoing inspection raises fear that Pyongyang might restrict border
access to Kaesong, as the country in December 2008 made a similar visit to the
complex that culminated in the DPRK's ban on South Korean access to the area,
according to Yonhap.
The once-thriving industrial park, jointly managed by the two sides, has been
a historic but fragile symbol of inter-Korean relations. Some 110 South Korean
companies are based in the complex, employing about 42,000 DPRK workers
producing labor- intensive goods.
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