Update 20/05/2015 – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced he will not be going to the Kaesong Industrial Complex, during a speech at the Seoul Digital Forum. 

“Early this morning, the authorities of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea informed us, through their diplomatic channels, that they were reversing their decision for me to visit the Kaesong Industrial Complex.

No explanation was given for this last-minute change.

This decision by Pyongyang is deeply regrettable. However, I as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, will not spare any efforts to encourage the DPRK to work with the international community for