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Article: (News Focus) N. Korea keeps dialogue open for joint park amid U.N. sanctions.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- June 20, 2009
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SEOUL, June 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea agreed to meet again and even offered a small olive branch to South Korea in Friday's talks over a joint industrial park, a gesture suggesting it intends to keep the cash cow amid sharpened international sanctions, watchers said. Pyongyang's growing confrontation with the outside world raised fears it would try to shut down the business park as a form of retaliation, but there was more to consider, they said. The two sides made no progress over key issues, as Pyongyang refused to release a detained South Korean worker and insisted on steep hikes in wages and rent at the joint park on its soil. But new proposals were exchanged, and ...