by Elaine
North Korea announced Thursday that it would release six South Koreans it has been holding in detention.
Recently, North Korea has alternated between harsh verbal attacks and conciliatory gestures. In mid-September, floods of South Korean vehicles began crossing the border as authority resumed at a cooperatively industrial park in the North Korean town of Kaesong. The factories had been shutdown since the North Korean withdrew all the workders amid tensions from the latest nuclear test.
North Korea desires to expand the Kaesong complex, where its low-paid workers make textiles, shoes and other labor-intensive goods in South Korean-owned factories. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, is determined to attract more foreign investment and to improve his people’s living standards.
Still,the South has remained skeptical of the expansion until the two Koreas can agree on measures to prevent another politically motivated shutdown, like allowing non-Korean investment in the complex. Those negotiations made progress fitfully.
However,the potential to absorb investors from other countries was suspended this month.
source:North Korea to Release 6 South Korean Detainees - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/world/asia/pyongyang-says-it-will-release-6-south-korean-detainees.html?ref=northkorea
by Lucy,
ReplyDeleteGood to hear the news.it seems that North Korea has been isolated and unfriendly to the rest of the world. The tension between North and South Korea is tight.Maybe it is the right time for Kim Jong-un to change its policies and face the world.Improving people’s living standards is the first step for him to do.
By Lynn
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea wants to be isolated but it seems that foreign investment and aids are inevitable for them.
by Ryosuke
ReplyDeleteNorth Korea and South Korea is next to each other, but these two countries are totally different countries in terms of the way of govern. North Korea's action always causes tension, so we have to be alert.