N. Korea reopens border for S. Korean visitors

SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea agreed on Tuesday to allow South Koreans
to make cross-border visits to a joint industrial complex in the communist state,
a day after it severed inter-Korean communications, Seoul officials said.

South and North Korea agreed to resume overland trips across the inter-Korean
border as of 10 a.m., Seoul's Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyoun said.
Scores of South Koreans were not able to return to the South from the industrial
complex in the North Korean border town of Kaesong on Monday after North Korea
cut off the last remaining inter-Korean military communications channel. The
North took the measure to protest an ongoing joint military drill by South Korea
and the United States.
hkim@yna.co.kr
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