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U.S. Interference in Construction of Kaesong Industrial Zone Flailed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 20 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the North Side's Delegation of the North-South Committee for the Promotion of Economic Cooperation on August 19 made public a statement denouncing the United States for leaving no stone unturned to put a brake on the construction of the Kaesong Industrial Zone, upset by its entry into a full-scale phase. At "emergency consultations" held in late July U.S. officials notified the south Korean authorities that the regulations stipulating that strategic materials shall not be exported to "those countries listed as a sponsor of terrorism" would be strictly applied to the south Korean enterprises, too, advancing into the Kaesong Industrial Zone, the statement noted, and said:
    This glaringly laid bare the U.S. base intention to strictly control the introduction of equipment and materials for production into the Zone and throw a stumbling block in the way of inter-Korean cooperation, displeased with its progress.
    Not content with impertinently standing in the way of the economic cooperation between Koreans, the U.S. is working hard to put even a physical brake on it. This outrageous behavior of the U.S. once again clearly proves that the U.S. is, indeed, the arch criminal who has persistently blocked the reconciliation, unity, cooperation and reunification between the north and the south and incited only confrontation and war on the Korean peninsula.
    The U.S. is preventing the south Korean enterprises from bringing equipment and materials into the Zone by citing the anti-DPRK regulation. This is nothing but a brigandish interference in the affairs of Koreans and a violation of national sovereignty as it was prompted by its aggressive attempt to totally bedevil the inter-Korean relations that have favorably developed since the publication of the historic June 15 North-South Joint Declaration and save its colonial domination from its collapse.
    The U.S. should know well that it can never stop the construction of the Kaesong Industrial Zone now under way under an agreement reached between the Koreans in the north and the south.