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| Korea supplies power to North for first time in five decades | ||
| 2005-03-16 | ||
The complex is a joint project between the two Koreas. North Korea is supplying the land and manpower in the form of cheap labor; South Korea is supplying the infrastructure, including electric power. "The power supply has a historic significance because the South's electricity has crossed the border for the first time since the division of the peninsula," the power company said in a statement. The power line was severed in 1948 when the Korean peninsula was split into communist North and capitalist South. As part of engagement efforts, South Korea has been building an industrial complex in Kaesong, 10 kilometers (six miles) north of the heavily fortified inter-Korean border. So far 15 labor-intensive South Korean businesses have been authorized to move into Kaesong as a part of a pilot project, with three factories already churning out products like clothing and kitchen pots and pans. The South Korean power company says it will supply 15,000 kilowatts of electricity to Kaesong this year and plans to expand this to 100,000 kilowatts by 2007, when more South Korean firms move in.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 The Kaesong economic zone will become a cash cow for the Pyongyang regime. Additionally, it will become a channel through which 'progressive' forces in the South will be able to funnel advanced technology to their friends in the North. The combination of the two (money and technology going North) will effectively defeat any attempts at sanctions as envisaged by the US and Japan. Yep, as far as Kim Jong-il is concerned, it just doesn't get any better than this! |
| Posted by: Michael Sheehan 2005-03-16 10:27:27 PM |
| #8 South Korea could assemble a bomb in 3 months or less now, they don't need a blueprint. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-16 4:34:35 PM |
| #7 I agree with Mrs. Davis. The N. Korean people now know they’ve been lied to. They watch videotapes of S. Korean soap operas. The N. Korean regime is going to fall. The US acts as bad cop and keeps squeezing. The S. Koreans act as good cop and are an attractive alternative for the N. Korean people. Between the US squeezing and the S. Korean seduction, N. Korea is going to change. Hopefully N. Korea will fall quietly to S. Korea and not violently to China. If N. Korea and S. Korea do unite, I don’t expect the resulting country to be particularly friendly toward the US. At least N. Korea will be gone. |
| Posted by: Anonymous5032 2005-03-16 4:07:08 PM |
| #6 One alternative way to consider this. The South knows the North has nukes. The South knows the North is going to crash soon. It can crash in one of two directions, China or the South. The South is just trying to make sure that it falls toward it so that China does not have an excuse to move into half the country. The south gets nukes the easy way and is able to stand up to China. Not a bad outcome. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-03-16 1:41:26 PM |
| #5 What a bunch of cowards the SK are. |
| Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929 2005-03-16 1:14:55 PM |
| #4 That's crazier than getting between some smuggling tunnels and a D9. |
| Posted by: Steve from Relto 2005-03-16 9:18:00 AM |
| #3 I was okay with this until the numbers at the end. 100,000 kW (100 MW) suggests one hell of a big industrial park -- I'd guess about a half million sewing machines with good lighting overhead. Somebody's stretching the truth here. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-03-16 8:37:44 AM |
| #2 South Korea on Wednesday began supplying electricity to an industrial complex inside communist North Korea, officials said, relinking a cross-border power line severed more than five decades ago. Suckers! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-16 1:37:12 AM |
| #1 South Korea supplies the electricity and North Korea supplies the slaves...... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-03-16 12:29:14 AM |