North Korea pulls staff out of factory
A factory complex that is North Korea’s last major economic link with the South was a virtual ghost town today after Pyongyang suspended its operations and recalled all 53,000 of its workers, cutting off jobs and a source of hard currency in its war of words and provocations against Seoul and Washington.
Only a few hundred South Korean managers remain at the Kaesong industrial complex, which has been run with cheap North Korean labour and South Korean capital and know-how for the past decade. The managers have not been forced to leave the centre just north of the Demilitarised Zone.
