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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea said Thursday it will freeze some South Korean assets at a troubled joint mountain resort in the North, expel South Koreans working at the site and restart the project with a new partner.
 
The move would be another setback to inter-Korean relations, which have foundered over the past two years after a decade of warming ties.
 
The two warring Koreas remain divided by a heavily fortified border but agreed, as part of reconciliation efforts a decade ago, to allow jointly operated tours to a famed mountain resort cherished by Koreans on both sides of the militarized frontier.
 
The shooting death of a South Korean tourist by a North Korean soldier prompted Seoul to suspend the tours to Diamond Mountain. Later that year, with tensions rising, North Korea halted a popular joint tour to the ancient city of Kaesong.
 
Impoverished North Korea recently expressed a willingness to restart the tour programs, which provide a much-needed influx of hard currency.
 
South Korea, however, said the North must accept its demands for a joint investigation into the tourist's death and the establishment of measures to prevent future incidents.
 
North Korean officials then ordered a survey of South Korean tour operators at the mountain resort, and announced late Thursday that the decision was made to go with a new partner.
 
The dispatch carried by Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency did not cite the new partner's name or nationality.
 
The North also said it may review another joint project _ an industrial complex in Kaesong _ if Seoul continued to move toward confrontation. More than 110 South Korean factories at Kaesong employ some 42,000 North Korean workers to produce electronics, watches, shoes and utensils.
 
South Korean officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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