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North Korea frees detained South Korea worker
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 13 - 08 - 2009


North Korea on Thursday freed a
South Korean worker detained for months in the communist
country, officials said, brightening prospects for improved
relations on the tense peninsula, according to AP.
The release came days after Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun
Jung-eun traveled to Pyongyang in an effort to secure the
employee's freedom, and a week after the isolated regime
freed two U.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard
labor for entering the country illegally in March. That
release followed a surprise visit by former President Bill
Clinton, who held talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong
Il.
Hyun remained in the North, and there was speculation she
would meet Kim.
Yoo Seong-jin _ an employee for Hyundai Group's North
Korean business arm, Hyundai Asan _ crossed the border and
arrived at a South Korean immigration control center late
Thursday, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry, which
handles relations with Pyongyang.
The 44-year-old technician worked at an industrial zone in
the North's border city of Kaesong, where about 110 South
Korean-run factories employ about 40,000 North Korean
workers. He was detained in March for allegedly denouncing
the North's political system.
The complex's viability has come under questions in recent
months as the North refused to release Yoo and demanded a
massive increase in payments and recent at the industrial
park. It now has only a skeleton South Korean staff.
Hyundai has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into
the industrial zone and a joint tourist project promoted by
more liberal South Korean governments in the past.
But renewed tension between the rivals has seen a
suspension of trips to the North by South Korean tourists
and a dramatic reduction in the number of South Koreans
working in the industrial zone.
The two Koreas technically remain at war since the 1950-53
Korean conflict ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty.


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