South Korea’s Ministry of Unification (MoU) has claimed that the reopening of the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) would be challenging, due to United Nations Security Council Resolutions. This is a groundless claim.

I worked as a policy advisor to the former Minister of Unification and was one of the first South Koreans to visit the KIC during its ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The KIC project was first discussed during the ROK-DPRK Summit in 2000, but it took more than four years (construction of the first factory was started on December 15, 2004) to initiate, due to U.S. sanctions at that time.

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