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Kept Foreigners Back From N.Korean Industrial Park - New York Times October 13, 2005 Foreigners Kept Back From N.Korean Industrial Park By REUTERS Filed at 10:41 p.m. ET KAESONG, North Korea (Reuters) - Nearly a year after a North Korean industrial park started shipping goods to the South in what was seen as a tentative step toward market reform, there is little sign of any trickle-down effect on its economy. In fact, seen from the North, there is precious little sign of anything. Foreign journalists were taken to the outskirts of the park, on secretive North Korea's side of the heavily fortified Demilitarised Zone, on Thursday but were allowed only a glimpse of a cluster of buildings on the horizon. Choe Kyong-jin, of the Kaesong Foreign Affairs Department, said the closest the visitors would be allowed was 1.2 km, or less than a mile, away. ``The system of our country and others is different, so this area is banned to other people,'' he told visiting foreign journalists grouped on a bridge over a nearly dried-up river, adding he had been to the park only twice. The interpreter said she had not only not been to the park before, she had not even heard of it, but she was confident of its success. ``It can promote good ideas,'' she said. Critics say the Kaesong Industrial Park, home to clothing and kitchenware firms among others, faces stiff competition from nearby, low-cost China. They say communist North Korea, starved of energy, does not pass on full $57.50 monthly wages to the workers in the park and is a difficult business partner. The economy in North Korea, whose nuclear weapons program has prompted four rounds of multilateral talks in China, is largely moribund despite -- some say because of -- piecemeal market reforms introduced in July 2002. But advocates of the park say the site offers cheaper labor than even China and easy access to the South's market and ports of courtesy a new road through the Demilitarised Zone. There was no sign of industrial life outside the park, which is still in its early stages. During the 30-minute briefing on the bridge, only one car drove by. But most traffic -- dozens of South Korean vehicles a day -- is heading South. From the southern side of the Demilitarised Zone the vehicles and buildings are clearly visible, and a cross-border railway track will soon be inaugurated. LIMITED CAPITALISM In the North, crops were being harvested by hand under the autumn sun and in the nearby city proper of Kaesong, people traveled by foot or bicycle. There were no private cars. A diplomat attending an EU workshop on economic reform in North Korea said the park was a means of deepening ties with the capitalist South and attracting foreign capital. North and South Korea are still technically at war, as the 1950-53 hostilities ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty. ``If it is also an experiment with limited capitalism, they didn't say so explicitly,'' the diplomat said. The subsidiary of South Korea's Hyundai Group responsible for development in North Korea this month ousted an executive who was a confidant of Pyongyang's leaders and helped build the Kaesong park's pilot project.. Hyundai Asan Corp.'s board of directors voted to remove Kim Yoon-kyu as vice chairman on the grounds they suspected him of siphoning off about 820 million won from construction projects and taking payments for his personal use, the company said in a statement. Hyundai Asan is also responsible for the Kumgang mountain resort, also just north of the DMZ but on the east coast of the peninsula, where the number of tourists allowed to visit was halved to 600 a day from September 1 after Kim was sacked. Copyright 2005 Reuters Ltd. Home Privacy Policy Search Corrections XML Help Contact Us Work for Us Site Map Back to Top

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