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1st LD: UN chief to visit Kaesong industrial complex in DPRK

Xinhua, May 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that he will visit the Kaesong Industrial Complex in the border town of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday.

Ban told a press conference after attending the World Education Forum in South Korea's port city of Incheon that he will visit the industrial complex Thursday, adding that details on his visit are under discussion.

It would be his first trip to the inter-Korean factory park since the UN chief took office in 2007. He visited the city as South Korean foreign minister in 2006.

The Kaesong industrial zone, launched in late 2004 and jointly managed by the two Koreas, has been seen as one of the key symbols of inter-Korean economic cooperation. Some 120 South Korean companies hiring 53,000 DPRK workers are operating in the park. Endi