North Korea shutdown of Kaesong Industrial Complex sees dream of rapprochement with South quickly turn into a nightmare
The final ending of an era of failed hopes for relations between the two Koreas came at sundown. The increasingly unpredictable regime of Kim Jong-un had turned the Kaesong Industrial Complex into a military zone, ordering all South Koreans to leave and seizing their assets.
That draconian North Korean response came hours after South Korea said it was pulling all South Korean companies out of the zone where citizens of both nations had worked together, as punishment for North Korea sending a satellite into space last Sunday, a month after conducting its fourth nuclear test.
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