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NKorea calls meeting with SKorean firms before border curbs
AFP - Monday, November 24
SEOUL (AFP) - - North Korea Monday called a meeting with bosses of South Korean factories at a joint industrial complex, one week before the start of its threatened border restrictions which could cripple the estate.
The heads of 80 firms operating at Kaesong, just north of the border, have been invited along with the chiefs of the two bodies which manage the complex, said the South's unification ministry, which handles cross-border ties.
"They are now in the complex for a meeting with North Korean officials at their (North Korea's) request," ministry spokesman Kim Ho-Nyoun told reporters.
The North gave no explanation why it was holding the meeting, he said.
After months of frosty relations, the hardline communist North has threatened "to strictly restrict and cut off" all border crossings from December 1 in protest at what it calls Seoul's policy of confrontation.
The Seoul-funded complex is the most important joint project and most visible symbol of reconciliation between the two Koreas, who remain technically at war.
It has earned the North tens of millions of dollars a year, with more than 32,000 North Koreans now working for 83 South Korean-owned factories.
Relations between the two nations soured after conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak took office in February, pledging to take a firmer line with the North.
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