North Korea Cuts Contacts With South, Bars Workers

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Source: Bloomberg News

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea cut its last communications channel with the government in Seoul and barred South Koreans from traveling to a shared industrial complex, as the regime protested U.S.-South Korea military exercises today.

The communist nation also ordered its armed forces to be combat ready and threatened retaliation if its territory is violated during the drills, which last until March 20.

“Our government is distressed at North Korea’s continued actions and announcements,” South Korea’s Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Ho Nyoun told reporters today in Seoul.

More than 700 South Koreans were unable to enter the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea today because of the severing of military communications necessary for crossing the border and it is unclear whether 572 workers there will be allowed to return, he added.

Tensions have risen on the Korean Peninsula in recent weeks and U.S. and South Korean officials say that North Korea is preparing to test a ballistic missile theoretically capable of reaching Alaska


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According to the article it appears that President Clinton had the sense to cancel these silly war games twice to cool things down. Maybe President Obama should follow suit.

This could get real messy, and for what good reason?

[DRoseDARs]

1. NK's government just absolutely HATES being ignored. Marsha, Marsha, MARSHA!

They pull this same kind of shit every few months or so. They stamp their little feet, huff their little huffs, threaten their little threats until someone gives them a goddamn cookie to shut them up.

And all the while the people starve.

[Javaman]

2. Rince and repeat...

N.Korea runs low on food. N.Korea threatens war. The world sends wheat and rice. N.Korea shuts up.

rince and repeat.