” I don’t know if this is a prelude to war or not, but it just show’s how little that Kim Jong UN cares about his people.”

North Korea has announced it is withdrawing all its workers from the joint-Korean Kaesong industrial zone and suspending operations there.

The move follows weeks of warlike rhetoric from Pyongyang after it was sanctioned by the UN for carrying out its third nuclear test in February.

Kaesong was established almost a decade ago and had been a symbol of co-operation between the two Koreas.

But a North Korean official said it could now be closed permanently.

In a statement, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said the decision “cannot be justified in any way and North Korea will be held responsible for all the consequences”.

The complex, just over the border in the North, employs more than 50,000 North Korean workers but is funded and managed by South Korean firms.

Pyongyang has already banned South Koreans from entering, but during a visit to the site, Kim Yang-gon, secretary of the party’s Central Committee, said the North would now “temporarily suspend the operations in the zone and examine the issue of whether it will allow its existence or close it”.

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