South Korean Businesses Again Look to North's Joint Industrial Center

A group of South Korean businesses are interested in visiting an industrial center they once operated jointly with North Korea. The group wants to see the condition of the center in North Korea in preparation for a possible reopening. As diplomatic a

voa标准英语2008年-South Korean Officials Return From North As Joi

South Korean officials who usually work in North Korea have returned home as ties between the two cold war rivals worsen. Both sides are getting ready for a complete border closure the North has promised to enforce next week. VOA's Kurt Achin has mo

英闻天下——502 China Urges "Turnaround" in Korean Situation

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei says all parties concerned should not make any moves to further escalate the situation. The Chinese side believes that despite changes in the situation, we have to stick to resolving the Korean Peninsula

英闻天下——491 North Korea to Pull out Workers from Kaesong

The Chinese government is calling on North Korea to ensure the safety of Chinese diplomats in Pyongyang. The comments come after the North Korean government announced plans to suspend all operations at its Kaesong joint industrial zone with South Kor

2007年VOA标准英语-North Korean Workers Get a Raise - From South K

By Kurt Achin Seoul 06 August 2007 South Korean authorities have agreed to raise wages at a North-South joint venture in North Korea for the first time since the experimental zone was opened three years ago. The Kaesong venture is hailed in South Kor

VOA慢速英语2015 北韩取消潘基文的访问行程

North Korea Cancels Ban Ki-moon Visit 北韩取消潘基文的访问行程 The North Korean government has canceled a planned United Nations visit to the Kaesong Industrial Complex. The cancellation came just a day before UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-

VOA双语新闻：朝鲜半岛南北关系缓解

South and North Korea have resumed traffic across their tense border to a jointly run industrial zone, renewing hopes for the project's viability. The move reflects a thaw in tensions after recent diplomatic moves between the two Koreas. 韩国和北韩

Two Koreas to Discuss Kaesong Normalization

South Korea's unification ministry says it will discuss how to reopen the Kaesong industrial park with North Korea. This comes a day after Seoul and Pyongyang agreed to hold working-level talks at the truce village of Panmunjeom Saturday. Unification

2006年VOA标准英语-US Ambassador Visits Inter-Korean Industrial Pa

By Kurt Achin Seoul 12 June 2006 US Ambassador to S. Korea Alexander Vershbow, right, receives a briefing from an unidentified N. Korean guide at a factory in the inter-Korean industrial park in Kaesong Washington's ambassador to South Korea calls a

韩国人员从开城工业园区撤回

The top South Korean official charged with handling North-South relations says the time has come for South Korean workers still at the shuttered Kaesong factory zone to return home. Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said Friday that the government h

首尔呼吁平壤对话

SEOUL, April 11 (Xinhua) -- South Korea on Thursday called on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to come to the dialogue table to resolve the political deadlock with its northern neighbor. The suspension in operation of the Kaesong Indu

朝鲜提议韩朝举行工作会谈

Pyongyang, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday proposed holding working-level contacts with South Korea in Kaesong on Sunday, the official KCNA news agency reported. The proposal announced by a spokesman of t

VOA标准英语2009年-North Korea Fires Short Range Missiles as

A third round of talks over an embattled joint industrial zone between North and South Korea has produced no progress. The North apparently launched several short range missiles into the ocean even as South Korean delegates were making their journey

VOA双语新闻 --- 韩国警告北韩核武会谈影响工业区

South Korea's chief official on North Korea policy has warned a continued lack of progress in talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons could threaten the growth of a joint industrial park. The park, built by South Korea in the Northern city of Kaesong, w

VOA双语新闻：南北韩工业园区谈判平壤要求加薪

North Korea has presented South Korea with sharply elevated rent and wage demands for running a joint industrial facility just inside the North Korean border. At the same time, Pyongyang is refusing to release a detained executive it has held with no

VOA双语新闻：南北韩紧张关系威胁开城工业园区

An industrial venture once celebrated as a symbol of reconciliation between the two Koreas may be endangered by a sharpening dispute between the two sides. North Korea is essentially tearing up the agreements that make the zone run. 南北韩之间激烈

韩国朝鲜签署协议

SEOUL - Republic of Korea and the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea officially signed an agreement on forming a joint committee to run the Kaesong industrial complex, Seoul's Unification Ministry said Thursday. Under the agreement, Seoul and Pyo

新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 20:00 2013/07/08

Monday July 8th, 2013. Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital. Coming up on our program this evening, Asiana Airlines Chief Executive denies inexperience of junior pilot. Sino-Russian Military Drill begins live-fire

新闻纵贯线 The Beijing Hour updated 20:00 2013/07/25

The Beijing Hour Evening Edition Thursday 25th July, 2013。 Welcome to the Beijing Hour, coming to you live from the Chinese capital, I'm Ben Leung. Coming up on our program this evening， A train crash in Northweatern Spain has killed 78. Downpour

Koreas Make Fresh Breakthroughs over Family Reunion

North and South Korea have made another slew of breakthroughs regarding their core concerns. Marc Cavigli has more. North Korea has accepted working-level talks with South Korea about the potential restart of family reunions. Red Cross delegates from