N Korea blocks access to key industrial zone
April 03, 2013  10:19
North Korea blocked South Korean access to a key joint industrial zone today, matching its angry rhetoric with action as Washington condemned Pyongyang's "dangerous, reckless" behaviour. 

Any move on the Seoul-funded Kaesong complex - established in 2004 and a crucial source of hard currency for North Korea - carries enormous significance and will send tensions soaring. 

Neither of the Koreas have allowed previous crises to significantly affect Kaesong, the only surviving example of inter-Korean cooperation and seen as a bellwether for the stability of the Korean peninsula.
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