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2007/10/10 10:40 KST
Gov't refrains from using "reform, openness" to describe Kaesong industrial park

   SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Yonhap) -- The Unification Ministry has dropped the words "reform and openness" to describe the South Korea-invested industrial park in the North's border town of Kaesong from its Web site in an apparent bid not to provoke the North.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il complained in the second-ever inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang last week that South Korea has been using the Kaesong industrial park as a scheme to force reform and openness in the communist North, whereas Pyongyang had gained little from the inter-Korean economic cooperation project.

President Roh Moo-hyun responded by saying in the North Korean capital that North Korea should not be described as a subject of reform and openness.