South Korea to suspend operations at joint industrial park in North Korea

South stopped operations at the complex so that their investment would not be used by North to fund missile development.

Seoul

: South Korea said Wednesday it would suspend operations at the Kaesong joint industrial complex in North Korea to punish Pyongyang for its latest rocket launch and nuclear test.

"We have decided to stop all operations at the Kaesong industrial complex so that... our investment in the complex would not be used by the North to fund its nuclear and missile development," Hong Yong-Pyo, Seoul's unification minister in charge of cross-border affairs, told a press conference.