DPRK confiscates part of S Korean property in Kymgansan.

PYONGYANG, April 23 (Itar-Tass) -- North Korea has decided to
confiscate part of property belonging to South Korea in the Kymgansan
mountains, a representative of the State Department for the Sights, as the Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday, said.

In particular, a center of meetings of families separated by the
Korean War of 1950-1953, a cultural center and a duty free shop are to be
confiscated. Their personnel will be expelled from the country. The rest
of South Korea's property in this region will be freezed.
The department's spokesman explained this step of the North Korean
government by unwillingness of the South Korean side to resume tourist
trips to the Kymgansan mountains in accordance with the joint project, as
well as "striving of the puppet regime to heighten tension between the
North and the South."
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