SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea expelled eight South Korean government workers Wednesday and threatened to close the border as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it wasn’t too late to make amends for sinking one of the South’s warships.
“There is an opportunity here for the North Koreans to see that their behavior is unacceptable,” Clinton said in Seoul on Wednesday after meeting with Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan. “They need to look internally to see what they could do to improve the standing of their own people and provide a different future.”
North Korea’s threats to sever all ties in retaliation for an accusation it denies have yet to include about 890 non-government workers at the 121 South Korean companies operating in the joint Gaeseong industrial park within its borders.
On Tuesday, North Korea said it will cut all ties to the South in response to the findings of an international panel that concluded the North was behind the March 26 sinking of the Cheonan. Kim ordered his military to be combat-ready, a Seoul-based dissident group said Tuesday. The South has responded by resuming radio broadcasts into North Korea that it called the “voice of freedom.”
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