Posted on 02/11/2016 3:18:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
The 280 South Koreans who had remained in Kaesong rushed to vacate the industrial park on Thursday evening, completing the pullout at 11:05 p.m. (1405 GMT), said the South's Unification Ministry, which handles ties with the North.
A few minutes before midnight, the South shut off the supply of electricity into Kaesong that powered the factory zone, the ministry said early on Friday. The action also cuts off water supply, it said.
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The Kaesong project employed about 55,000 North Koreans, who were given a taste of life in the South, working for the 124 mostly small and medium sized manufacturers that operated there, about 54 km (34 miles) northwest of Seoul.
The average wage for North Korean workers at Kaesong was roughly $160 a month, paid to a state management company.
Except for Kaesong, both countries forbid their citizens from communicating with each other across their heavily armed border.
Despite volatile North-South relations over the years, Kaesong had been shut only once before, for five months in 2013, amid heightened tensions following its third nuclear test. Its future had often seemed uncertain over the past decade.
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Nork NorK NorK!!!
Chubby San IL JUN looks plumper than ever.
ONE less general to feed helps pack it on.
The Deer Leader in the headlights. ;-)
Stupid, I supposed, even to hope it, but I did entertain a fantasy that just perhaps Junior wouldn’t be as batsh!t nuts as his old man. Looks like that one went the way of the unicorn and the Tooth Fairy.
Not good.
Why is this a bad thing? North Korea doesn’t need electricity anyway, right? They’re a communist paradise.
NK had to shut it down. Workers were experiencing an intake of food.
Who would ever have thought that they would want Kim Jong-il back?
If this goes too long Zero will surrender.
Wonder how much of that the workers actually received.
I’m sure all the ROKs “reset” all the machinery before they left.
Internal dispute. No need to get involved in their civil war.
They probably do it the same way the Cuban Govt does it.
Foreign hotelier comes to the country, they hire locals, and pay the State, who in turn “pays” the workers worthless currency.
The jobs are sought after though because of access to tips.
Is this how wars start back up?
Actually, in one of his earlier temper tantrums the Young Leader declared that North Korea was unilaterally repudiating the ceasefire. So technically we could go in and nuke them right now.
Ping
What’s a pittance go for these days?
Sad,, that area is already climatically challenged enough and has a hard time agriculturally, fertile dirt must be at a premium.. and the worms in it. Nutrition Il style.
I’d go back to Seoul to defend all the cute granddaughters of all the gals I used to date there. ;-)
Set me up in Itaewon with some Patriot missile batteries, cold on tap Heinie,, a good club with rock bands.. Time to settle down scores with the Norks.. And their spies in lace. ;-)
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