North Korea has no intention to 'examine' South Korea's Hyundai Group chief's plan to visit the North's Mount Kumgang, the country's foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
South Korea's Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun speaks to the media upon her arrival at the CIQ office, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul August 17, 2009, after she crossed the border. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak/File Photo
Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun has been seeking to visit North Korea in August and submitted applications to South Korea's unification ministry, Yonhap news agency reported on Friday, citing an unnamed official at the ministry. Hyundai's late founder, Chung Ju-Yung, was born in North Korea. "It is the policy of the DPRK government that entry by any personage of south Korea into its territory cannot be allowed," North Korea said in a statement, adding that its policy is unchangeable and will be maintained in the future.
Mount Kumgang is on North Korea’s east coast near the demilitarised zone separating the two countries. Development there, along with the Kaesong industrial zone, had been the major economic projects of, and a token of rapprochement between, the governments on the peninsula split by the 1950-53 Korean War.critic
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