N. Korea allows 5 people to return South after closing border again

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SEOUL, March 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Saturday allowed one South Korean and
four foreigners to return to the South from an inter-Korean industrial park just
north of the heavily armed border, a day after Pyongyang closed the frontier
again, an official said.
Hundreds of South Korean workers at the complex, located in the North Korean city
of Kaesong about 70 kilometers northwest of Seoul, remained stranded.
One South Korean, who is set to get married, and four foreigners -- one
Australian and three Chinese -- arrived at the South's immigration office around
9:25 a.m. Saturday, according to the Unification Ministry official.
"The North side didn't tell us whether others will be returned," the official
said of the 397 South Korean workers still in Kaesong.
North Korea barred overland border crossings to the Kaesong complex on Monday
after cutting off the only remaining military hotline between the two Koreas, in
its latest protest against an ongoing joint South Korea-U.S. military drill.
The North reopened the border on Tuesday, but closed it again on Friday without
explanation.
North Korea has put its million-man army on high-alert and announced a plan to
launch a "satellite" into orbit. Outside experts believe the launch is a ruse to
test a long-range missile capable of reaching parts of the United States.
U.S. and Japanese officials have suggested they may shoot down the North Korean
rocket.
Inter-Korean relations have disintegrated to their lowest level in recent memory
since conservative South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office a little more
than a year ago pledging to get tough on North Korea.
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