Hundreds of workers from the South are stuck at the joint industrial complex just over the border after the North banned South Koreans to the site on Wednesday, officials said.
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North Korea's measure to ban South Koreans from entering Kaesong industrial zone is causing a serious trouble in Kaesong's operation," Kim Hyung-suk, South Korean Unification Ministry front man, said."To expedite the investment on North Korea which the North itself hopes for, there has to be a mutual trust between South Korea, North Korea and the international society."
Wednesday's move sparked fears the North could carry out its threatened shutdown of the complex as part of a standoff with Washington and Seoul.