PAJU, South Korea: North and South Korea began talks on Wednesday on reopening a jointly run industrial zone, with tensions running high over the shuttered complex which is seen as the last remaining symbol of cross-border reconciliation.

South Korean delegates met their Pyongyang counterparts in North Korea for the sensitive meeting aimed at restarting the Kaesong complex’s mothballed factories. The two sides remain far apart over who was to blame for the closure.

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