Photographers take pictures of a South Korean truck arriving from North Korea’s Kaesong joint industrial complex at a gate of the inter-Korean transit office in the border city of Paju on April 8, 2013. South Korea on April 8 issued another appeal for North Korea to lift an access ban on the Kaesong joint industrial park, which has already forced a dozen South Korean firms to halt operations. AFP PHOTO
SEOUL—North Korea announced Monday it would pull all its 53,000 workers out the Kaesong joint industrial zone with South Korea and temporarily shut the complex down.
“We will pull out all our workers from the Kaesong Industrial Complex,” Kim Yang Gon, a senior ruling party official said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.