Last week, the two sides resumed operations at a jointly operated factory park that was shut down in April.
It also said it would shut down a jointly operated industrial complex in a North Korean town, Kaesong.
It also said it would shut down a jointly operated industrial complex in the North Korean town of Kaesong.
Also on Saturday, 125 South Korean managers returned home from a jointly operated factory park in North Korea after Seoul decided to withdraw all its people amid continuing tensions.
A rarely investigated approach is the energy cooperation which incorporates a jointly operated CHP plant also producing process steam for nearby industry.
American policymakers have long sought common ground with Russia on missile defense, but Mr. Gates's remarks were unusually specific, suggesting that one option might be a jointly operated facility on Russian territory.
On Thursday, for a second straight day, North Korea blocked South Koreans from crossing the border to enter a jointly operated industrial park, threatening the future of the last remaining symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.
While the line was not in use, the Koreas left messages for each other at an unofficial office at the Kaesong Industrial Park, a jointly operated complex in the North where South Korean companies use North Korean workers.
SEOUL -- North Korea confiscated five South Korean-owned facilities at a jointly operated mountain resort on Friday, while calling the president of South Korea a "traitor" and accusing him of defaming the North's most important holiday.
SEOUL, South Korea South Koreaeannounceded $7.3 million worth of humanitarian aid for North Korea on Sunday, a conciliatory gesture that coincided with a call by the South for "one last round" of talks on restarting a jointly operated industrial complex.
SEOUL, South Korea North Koreaea confiscated five facilities owned by South Korea at a jointly operated mountain resort on Friday, and it called South Korea's president a "traitor" and accused him of defaming the North's most important holiday.
