North Korea scraps all economic cooperation with South in further blow to ties
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North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly has voted to scrap all agreements with South Korea on promoting economic cooperation, including the special law on the operation of the Mount Kumgang tourism project. The project, which drew nearly 2 million South Korean visitors, was suspended in 2008 after a South Korean tourist was shot and killed by North Korean guards. The North's unilateral action is not recognized by South Korea and is expected to deepen its isolation. The report did not mention the North's special law governing the Kaesong industrial zone. North Korea has previously scrapped a military pact signed in 2018 aimed at de-escalating tensions near the military border. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called the shift in Pyongyang's inter-Korea policy "an extraordinary change" but said the North Korean leadership is "not a rational group."
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