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Inter-Korean trade declines for second month
AP - Sunday, December 21
SEOUL, South Korea - Trade between North and South Korea declined in November for the second straight month, Seoul said Saturday, amid heightened political tensions between the rival states.
Trade between the neighbors fell 27.7 percent to $142.72 million from the same month last year, the Unification Ministry said in a report on its Web site.
The report did not provide a specific reason for the decrease.
In October, inter-Korean trade dropped 23.2 percent to $163.07 million.
The drop comes amid intensifying North Korean anger with the policies of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. The conservative Lee took office in February vowing Seoul should not offer unconditional aid to its impoverished, nuclear-equipped neighbor, though he broadly favors engagement.
North Korea has curtailed government-level exchanges and dialogue in response.
After a series of threats, the North ordered from Dec. 1 tightened restrictions on border traffic, reduced the number of South Koreans allowed access to a joint industrial zone and stopped South Korean tours to a historic city near the border.
For the first 11 months of the year, inter-Korean trade totaled $1.7 billion, the ministry said, up 3.7 percent from the same period last year.
Inter-Korean trade reached an all-time high of $1.8 billion in 2007.
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