North Korea reopens to South as economy weakens

2009/08/17 09:08:44 @Reuters: International News

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Monday it would reopen its border with the South, ending a self-imposed 9-month blockade on a vital source of cash for its leaders as their ravaged economy is squeezed by tightening U.N. sanctions. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=5AnTn2i39_Q:x5sFGU5iDGs:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=5AnTn2i39_Q:x5sFGU5iDGs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=5AnTn2i39_Q:x5sFGU5iDGs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=5AnTn2i39_Q:x5sFGU5iDGs:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=5AnTn2i39_Q:x5sFGU5iDGs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/5AnTn2i39_Q" height="1" width="1"/
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