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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Hyundai boss goes to NKorea to seek worker's release AFP - Monday, August 10 SEOUL (AFP) - - The head of South Korean's Hyundai group is to leave for North Korea Monday to discuss the release of an employee detained since March by the communist state, a spokesman said. ADVERTISEMENT There is growing media speculation the North may free the worker surnamed Yu after it pardoned two US journalists during former president Bill Clinton's visit to Pyongyang last week. Group chairwoman Hyun Jung-Eun will discuss the detainee's release, the resumption of tours to the North and ways to put inter-Korean business back on track, said a spokesman for Hyundai Asan, a group subsidiary which manages its businesses in the North. She is expected to leave around 2:00 pm (0500 GMT) through the border Demilitarised Zone and return Wednesday. The spokesman told AFP there are no plans at present for her to meet leader Kim Jong-Il, as she did during a Pyongyang visit in 2007. The North's ties with the South have been icy for the past 18 months, and regional tensions are high following its rocket launch in April and nuclear test in May. But Clinton held three-and-a-half hours of talks with Kim during his surprise visit to secure the release of the reporters detained in March along the border with China. US National Security Adviser Jim Jones said Sunday the North had signalled it wants a better relationship with the United States while Clinton emphasised the importance of denuclearisation. The North has since March 30 detained the Hyundai Asan engineer who worked at the Seoul-funded Kaesong estate in the North. It accuses him of insulting its system and of urging a North Korean worker to defect, but refuses to give Seoul officials access to the man or to say where he is now being held. South Korean politicians and activists have complained that the North has treated the engineer -- a fellow Korean -- worse than it did the American women, who were allowed diplomatic access and phone calls home. On July 30 the North also detained the four-member crew of a squid fishing boat which sailed across the border due to a defective navigation system. Cho Kun-Shik, chief of Hyundai Asan and Yu's direct boss, was separately scheduled Monday to travel to Kaesong. The estate near the west coast is the last major inter-Korean joint project still operating. Its future has become increasingly clouded since Pyongyang demanded huge extra wage and rent payments from Seoul and detained the engineer. Some 40,000 North Koreans work for 105 South Korean companies at Kaesong, which was developed mainly by Hyundai. The auto, shipbuilding and construction giant pioneered business exchanges with the North, opening the Mount Kumgang resort on the east coast in 1998. Tours there have been suspended since July 2008 when North Korean soldiers shot dead a Seoul housewife who strayed into a poorly marked military zone. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Sign in to recommend this article » 0 users recommend Related Articles: Asia Pacific UN chief says climate change biggest challengeAP - Monday, August 10 12 killed, 10 missing as typhoon hits JapanAP - Monday, August 10 Opium takes over entire Afghan families, villagesAP - Monday, August 10 A rape claim puts focus on Beijing's 'black jails'AP - Monday, August 10 Twelve dead, 52 missing in Taiwan flooding: rescuersAFP - Monday, August 10 Enlarge Photo Hyundai boss goes to NKorea to seek worker's release Most Popular – Asia Pacific Viewed Scientists decode HIV genome structure: study Three new bank failures bring to 72 number of collapsed US banks Taiwan's Jay Chou goes to Hollywood: report Burglars steal $15m from Saudi princess Manson murders back in spotlight 40 years on View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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