#kaesong

#Kaesong entre deux Corées

En février 2016, la Corée du Sud décide de fermer le complexe industriel intercoréen de Kaesong pour protester contre les #essais_nucléaires et balistiques nord-coréens. Elle n’avait pas fait auparavant de la #dénucléarisation un préalable à la collaboration des deux Corées – un changement de cap qui pourrait se révéler peu judicieux.

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Kaesong entre deux Corées
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En février 2016, la Corée du Sud décide de fermer le complexe industriel intercoréen de Kaesong pour protester contre les essais nucléaires et balistiques nord-coréens. Elle n’avait pas fait auparavant de la dénucléarisation un préalable à la collaboration des deux Corées – un changement de cap qui pourrait se révéler peu judicieux.

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/ #diplomatie, #politique_nucléaire, #sanctions

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South Korea provides over 376 billion won in Kaesong compensation | NK News - North Korea News

▻https://www.nknews.org/2016/09/south-korea-provides-over-376-billion-won-in-kaesong-compensation

Après la fermeture de la zone franche de Kaesong

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South Korean firms previously operating in the Kaesong Industrial Complex have received over 376 billion won in compensation from the government since the sites closure closure, the Ministry of Unification (MoU) announced on Monday.

The compensation, which is the equivalent of over 340 million U.S. dollars, follows the February 10 closure of the joint North-South run complex at which 124 South Korean companies were active.

“As of yesterday (9.4), a total of 376.7 billion won has been delivered to the GIC companies, which is a 74 percent execution rate out of the total budget scale,” MoU Spokesperson Jeong Joon-Hee said, according to the ministry’s website on Monday.

#kaesong #corée_du_nord #corée_du_sud

Seoul shuts down joint North-South Korea industrial complex | World news | The Guardian
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South Korea is to close an industrial complex it operates with North Korea in retaliation for Pyongyang’s rocket launch last weekend, bringing to a sudden halt one of the last symbols of cooperation between the two countries.

Officials in Seoul said the decision to shut down the Kaesong complex was intended to prevent the regime of North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, from using hard currency earned through the venture to fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.

#kaesong #corée_du_nord #corée_du_sud

North Korean Economy Watch » Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC)
▻http://www.nkeconwatch.com/category/economic-reform/special-economic-zones/kaesong-industrial-park

How bad is the Kaesong shutdown for the North Korean Economy?
Wednesday, February 10th, 2016

By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein

The Ministry of Unification in Seoul announced today that the industrial park in Kaesong be closed as a form of retaliation for North Korea’s recent rocket launch, alleging that funds from the park have been used to finance the north’s arms buildup. Wall Street Journal (with my emphasis):

#kaesong #corée_du_nord #corée_du_sud

Daily NK - KIC Business Still Suffering

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Businesses operating in the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) are undergoing severe financial hardship as orders have decreased since the complex re-opened in September, a source has revealed.

Kim Hyeon Seong (pseudonym), of a textile company, contacted Daily NK on the 10th. “Following the re-opening of the KIC, small and medium-sized businesses were in uncomfortable circumstances, but were reluctant to share this fact with the media. They are covering it up, as they are concerned that business may be impacted if word gets out,” he said.

#corée_du_nord #kaesong

N. Korea mum on Kaesong subcommittee talks

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SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Yonhap) — Pyongyang has not been responding to calls by Seoul to hold subcommittee talks to improve an inter-Korean factory park in North Korea, a ministry official here said Thursday, in what amounts to a violation of terms of the agreement that reopened the industrial complex.

“South Korean officials at the joint management committee (of the Kaesong Industrial Complex) have on numerous occasions asked for talks to be held, but the North so far has failed to give a response,” the official from Seoul’s unification ministry said.

#corée_du_nord #kaesong

Foreign firms show interest in Kaesong complex: official

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SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) — Foreign companies have shown steady interest in investing in an inter-Korean factory park in North Korea, which may contribute to the internationalization of the business zone, a government official said Friday.

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Transforming the Kaesong Industrial Complex into a globally competitive one is part of the agreement reached between Seoul and Pyongyang to resume its operations on Sept. 16. All work was halted in early April amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

#corée_du_nord #kaesong #zones_franche

North Korea adds 14 special economic zones: report

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North Korea has designated 14 new special economic development zones this year, a more than three-fold increase from the current number, a media report showed Wednesday.

According to an article carried on the official website of the Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), an academician from the prestigious Kim Il-sung University confirmed the sharp increase in the development zones, up from the current four operational zones in the country.

The daily did not give the names of the new sites, although it said that legal regulations, administrative support, development and management of such regions are all in place.

Pyongyang has been moving to create development zones ever since North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called on regional governments to create special zones in each city and province during a meeting of WPK members in late March.

#corée_du_nord #kaesong #zones_franches

Lands’ End denies clothing being manufactured in North Korea | NK News – North Korea News

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Voir aussi le seenthis où je montre que les sous-vêtements Cotton Club sont fabriqués en Corée du Nord

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Photographs recently obtained by NK News showed at least six dress shirts branded with Lands’ End labels and “Made in China” tags on a rack displaying previous projects at North Korea’s Sonbong Textile Factory, raising the possibility that the Dodgeville, Wisconsin-based catalog retail giant had outsourced part of its production to a country currently under multiple U.S. sanctions.

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Lands’ End spokesperson Michele Casper, who said the company would be investigating whether the garments seen in the Songbong factory related to an “issue with a supplier” or reflected an “instance of counterfeiting,” now tells NK News that the company is indeed in full compliance with all applicable local laws.

#corée_du_nord #kaesong #sweatshop

How Kaesong could offer the key to Korean reunification | NK News – North Korea News

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What is the proper path toward Korean unification? The minister of unification under former President Roh Moo-hyun has explored history and found examples of what won’t work.

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Namely, Chung Dong-yong said that it cannot viably be achieved through force, as it was in Vietnam, or through absorption, as in Germany.

However, Chung said that Korea has a unique asset in its favor, in that it has a functioning industrial complex at Kaesong where North and South Korea are already working together. By expanding on this idea, and acknowledging North Korea’s needs, he said progress can be made.

NEITHER VIETNAMESE NOR GERMAN

“The Vietnamese way of unification is by force,” he said, referring to North Vietnam’s annexation of the South in 1975. “The military knows better than anyone that this is impossible for us.”

#corée_du_nord #kaesong

South Koreans welcomed back at Kaesong Industrial complex | NK News – North Korea News

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outh Koreans welcomed back at Kaesong Industrial complex
Resumption of operations comes after shutdown five months ago
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by Debbie Jeong , September 16, 2013

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Approximately 820 South Korean workers headed north to the Kaesong Industrial Complex Monday, returning to work for the first time since the joint-plant was shutdown five months ago.

In addition to the arrival of the South Korean workers, some 32,000 North Korean workers – around two thirds of the total workforce – also returned to the complex Monday, as requested by the South Korean side.

Korean Industrial Zone Re-opens

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SEOUL — North and South Korea have reopened their joint factory zone in Kaesong, just north of their shared border. The restart is seen as the most substantial sign of warming relations between the two sides following tensions earlier this year over Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear tests.

Lines of trucks and cars crossed South Korea’s northern border checkpoint Monday morning on the way to Kaesong, North Korea.

#corée_du_nord #kaesong

American brand clothing seen at North Korean garment factory | NK News – North Korea News

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American brand clothing seen at North Korean garment factory
U.S. clothing brand Lands’ End to “address the issue appropriately”
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by Chad O’Carroll and Curtis Melvin , September 12, 2013

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American clothing displaying “Made in China” tags have been spotted at a North Korean garment production factory, photos exclusively obtained by NK News reveal.

At least five dress shirts branded with Lands’ End labels were seen on a rack displaying previous projects at North Korea’s Sonbong Textile Factory in June, raising the possibility that the Dodgeville, Wisconsin-based catalog retail giant has outsourced part of its production line to a country currently under multiple U.S. sanctions.

#corée_du_nord #kaesong #sweatshops #états-unis

Two Koreas agree to re-open Kaesong complex next week | NK News – North Korea News

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C’est la grande réconciliation

Two Koreas agree to re-open Kaesong complex next week
Milestone agreement comes after months of stop-start talks, but observers remain weary kaesong-agreement

by Chad O’Carroll , September 11, 2013

The two Koreas agreed to re-open the Kaesong Industrial Complex for “trial operations” on September 16, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification announced early Wednesday morning.

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The announcement came after hours of intensive inter-Korean negotiations to devise a framework for bolstering confidence, trust and sustainable growth in the complex’s future operations.

Lire aussi :

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Ainsi que :

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#corée_du_nord #kaesong

(LEAD) S. Korean businessmen urge gov’t to declare Kaesong special disaster zone | YONHAP NEWS

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(LEAD) S. Korean businessmen urge gov’t to declare Kaesong special disaster zone

SEOUL, April 23 (Yonhap) — About 100 businessmen on Tuesday called on South Korea to declare the joint inter-Korean industrial complex in North Korea as a special disaster zone as the prolonged suspension of the complex has begun to hurt their companies.

#corée-du-nord #kaesong

Kim closes Kaesong, a crucial source of income for North Koreans—and of news from outside – Quartz

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North Korea has shuttered the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a symbol of cooperation between North and South Korea that generated some $2 billion in trade each year. The move brings the peninsula even closer to war, and also closes a crucial source of word-of-mouth information for North Koreans.

The status of Kaesong, where some 51,000 North Korean employees work for 120 South Korean manufacturing companies, had grown increasingly precarious in the last few weeks, as tensions between the Kim Jong-un government and the US and South Korea mounted. Days ago, North Korea banned hundreds of South Korean managers from entering the facility. Still, production continued at a lower rate until Monday, when Kim’s government announced the withdrawal of Kaesong’s North Korean workforce.

#corée-du-nord #kaesong

La Corée du Nord ferme le symbole de la coopération avec le Sud - Monde - MYTF1News

J’avais un plan pour y aller, dommage, va falloir attendre un peu.

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Le régime de Kim Jong-un a annoncé lundi qu’il arrêtait, temporairement pour l’instant, la production sur le complexe intercoréen de Kaesong, situé à l’intérieur de son territoire.

#corée-du-nord #kaesong #zone-franche

North Korea Threatens to Close Vital Factory Park It Runs With South - NYTimes.com

▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/world/asia/north-korean-sites-are-down-in-possible-cyberattacks.html?nl=todaysheadline

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea, reiterating that it considered the Korean Peninsula back in “a state of war,” threatened Saturday to shut down a factory complex it jointly operates with South Korea and that stands as the last significant symbol of cooperation.

#corée-du-nord #zone-franche #kaesong