(Before It’s News)

North Korean president Kim Jong-Un will soon issue a ‘final order’ to begin the re-unification of Korea and to “bring the aggressors and provocateurs to a disgraceful ruin” according to this story from NKNews. North Korea has also ‘temporarily’ closed the joint North/South Korean industrial complex Kaesong, allowing only one way traffic back into South Korea for workers there but not allowing any more South Korean workers back into the North. However, we’ve also learned that according to South Korea’s ‘Unification Ministry’, 446 South Korean workers are now stranded at the facility since early Wednesday. The DPRK has in the past denied access to this major hub for commercial trade between the two hostile neighbors.

SEOUL – Access to the joint North-South Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex has been closed by North Korea – South Korean workers are allowed to travel back to the Southern side, but the traffic is one way.

The KCNA said this morning that Kim Jong Un is to issue a “final order,” to end North Korea’s ”long-standing history of showdown with the U.S.”

“The aggressors and provocateurs will face a disgraceful ruin in the final battle [for reunification] to be started soon, and the great Korean nation will greet the bright day of national reunification,” the article said.

Pyongyang threatened to close the joint industrial zone, which is seen as a major source of trade income for North Korea, after it accused the South Korean media of “ridiculing” the North for keeping the complex open, despite its threatening rhetoric.

According to investigative journalist Tim Shorrock recently, the importance of the Kaesong Industrial Complex cannot be underestimated as the potential ‘canary in the coal mine’ for any future elevated conflict between the two nations.:

“The one thing to look for in Korea is the North-South industrial zone, called Kaesong. It’s still going. I call it the ‘Canary of the Korea’,  like the canary in the coal mines… if that zone is still open, I think we still have some hope. As of this morning it was still going, which means that South Koreans by the thousands were going there to work, as well as North Koreans. So I have some optimism that there can be an accommodation here.”

Video published on Apr 2, 2013 –  North Korean solider stands next to a sitting South Korean worker outside a branch of Family Mart in the Kaesong Industrial Complex. Read more below.

This latest announcement coming from North Korea is one more in a series of threats that could potentially evolve into a full scale nuclear war between the two nations with the American government closely involved.

North Korea has suspended access to the Kaesong industrial zone shared with South Korea, but allowed its workers to return home — the latest move amid escalating tensions on the peninsula.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry reports that 446 South Korean workers had been stranded at the facility, waiting to cross back into home territory since early Wednesday hours. Normally, daily entry clearance is given via telephone.
North Korea could be making true on an earlier promise to close off the complex as part of the rapidly escalating war rhetoric exchanged between the two countries, also involving Washington.
The Kaesong industrial zone is a jointly-operated facility established in the 2000s, and is considered to be among the major sources of income for the destitute North, as well as the only true joint venture between the warring neighbors.

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