SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's foreign ministry said Sunday that the United States fully understands and supports the country's decision to withdraw all of its personnel from the inter-Korean industrial complex after no progress was made to negotiate an end to the stalemate regarding the halt of all business operations.

It said Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, who met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns the day before, explained developments leading up to the pull-out of South Korean workers from the Kaesong Industrial Complex located just north of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two countries.