Even though the complex is a significant source of hard currency for North Korea, it was announced for a second day, that the border, and access to the Kaesong industrial park was barred to South Korean managers.
A ten-week dockside maintenance period for the Coast Guard Cutter Hickory in Long Beach, California is now complete and the Cutter has returned to its home in Homer, Alaska.
Tension continues on the Korean Peninsula Wednesday as South Korean workers are turned away at the border as they attempt to go to work at the Joint Industrial Zone a mile over the North-South border.