The Globe and Mail
by Su-Hyun Lee and Martin Fackler
May 4, 2013

When the order came last weekend to evacuate an industrial park in North Korea, Kwak Kyung-dock, a South Korean factory manager, said he was forced to flee with the suit on his back – and his car filled with so many boxes of the plastic machinery parts made at his factory that he had to tie several on the roof.

“I had to leave like a refugee,” he said.

The flight of South Korean managers like Kwak, crossing the border in cars overburdened with gear from factories they may never see again, has become the enduring image of a standoff that began when the North successfully launched a long-range rocket in December.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/worl...rticle11720394/

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The Globe and Mail
by Su-Hyun Lee and Martin Fackler
May 4, 2013

When the order came last weekend to evacuate an industrial park in North Korea, Kwak Kyung-dock, a South Korean factory manager, said he was forced to flee with the suit on his back – and his car filled with so many boxes of the plastic machinery parts made at his factory that he had to tie several on the roof.

“I had to leave like a refugee,” he said.

The flight of South Korean managers like Kwak, crossing the border in cars overburdened with gear from factories they may never see again, has become the enduring image of a standoff that began when the North successfully launched a long-range rocket in December.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/worl...rticle11720394/

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Interesting read, thxs.

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The exodus was all the more alarming because for the nine years that North Koreans had worked in South Korean-owned factories at the Kaesong complex, it had seemed reassuring proof that no matter how heated the back-and-forth got, the two nations were unwilling to let things go too far.

Now that all of the managers have returned to South Korea, they are shedding light on the sprawling outpost of capitalism in the impoverished Communist state. Though it sometimes felt like a prison, to many it represented the only tangible hope that the two Koreas might one day be able to find common ground.

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Thanks for posting.