Politics

North Korea Blocks South Koreans From Entering Shared Factory Park

Move comes amid worsening relations and escalated tensions

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PAJU, South Korea (AP)—North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North, officials in Seoul said, a day after Pyongyang announced it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material.