SEOUL, April 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korean workers failed to show up for work at the inter-Korean industrial complex in the North's border city of Kaesong on Tuesday, bringing their operations to a complete halt and putting the complex's future in limbo.
A government source at the Ministry of Unification said workers did not report to work as the North announced the day before that it would pull out all of its laborers in protest of South Korean provocations. Pyongyang claimed that Seoul was using Kaesong to find a pretext for igniting war.

He added that the North had not scheduled bus services used to ferry workers from their homes to the complex located just north of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas.