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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 Singapore Asia Pacific World Search Search: NKorea reopens border to SKoreans at showpiece zone AFP - Wednesday, March 18 SEOUL, (AFP) - - North Korea Tuesday reopened its border to South Koreans bound for a showpiece industrial estate in the secretive nation, ending a sporadic blockade which threatened to shut down factories there. ADVERTISEMENT The North gave no explanation for its change of heart, which comes amid continuing high tensions between the two governments. The communist state has for months been angry at a tougher stance on relations taken by Seoul's conservative government. It has blasted an ongoing US-South Korean military exercise, calling it a prelude to invasion. The North has also scheduled what it calls a satellite launch for April 4-8. Washington and Seoul say Pyongyang's real purpose is to test a long-range missile, in defiance of a United Nations resolution passed after its missile and nuclear tests of 2006. China expressed concern at the growing uncertainty but did not comment directly on the planned launch. "At present, the situation on the Korean peninsula is rather complicated, with an increasing number of uncertain factors," said foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang. "We express concern over this," Qin said, hours after the North's Premier Kim Yong-Il began what China's media termed a five-day goodwill visit. "We hope relevant parties can work to settle relevant issues through dialogue, maintain common restraint, maintain peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and in the region." China is one of Pyongyang's few major allies and its largest trade partner. The border closure began on March 9, the first day of the military exercise. The North switched off military phone and fax lines that were used to authorise border crossings, before relenting the following day. Last Friday it again shut the border without explanation, raising fears that many South Korean plants at the Kaesong estate would soon have to close for lack of raw materials. Seoul officials said the North's military Tuesday sent a letter authorising the resumption of trips both ways. Again, there was no explanation. Kaesong estate opened in 2005 as a symbol of reconciliation but its operations have several times been hampered by political tensions. About 39,000 North Koreans work for 98 South Korean firms, producing items such as watches, clothes, shoes and kitchenware. Raw materials are trucked northwards and finished products travel the other way. Koh Yu-Hwan, a professor at Seoul's Dongguk University, said the saga may indicate a lack of communications between the North's military and its economy-related agencies. "In order to protest the US-South Korean military exercise, the North's military may have cut off border communications lines without thinking enough about the impact the move would have on economic and other sectors," he told AFP. Unification ministry spokesman Kim Ho-Nyoun said traffic was moving smoothly Tuesday but the situation remained "very unstable". "This is North Korea's responsibility," he said. The Kaesong estate last year earned the impoverished North 26.8 million dollars in wages for workers, which are paid directly to official bodies. At the Imjingak frontier area, Seoul rights activists launched 10 giant balloons Tuesday across the border. They carried a total of 100,000 leaflets denouncing the North's regime and its leader, Kim Jong-Il. "Down with Kim Jong-Il dictatorship!" read a message on one balloon. The activists have started attaching North Korean banknotes to the flyers to encourage Northerners to pick them up, despite the risk of punishment. The Seoul government has urged them to halt the launches, on the grounds that they could inflame relations, but says it has no laws to ban them. However the activists have been investigated for attaching North Korean won. Seoul says unauthorised use of the currency in the South is punishable by up to three years in jail or heavy fines. 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