SKorean govt says wages in joint industrial zone funded North’s weapons program

SEOUL: South Korea on Sunday defended its decision to abruptly pull out of an inter-Korean industrial zone, claiming 70 percent of wages for North Korean workers were for years used to fund Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile development.

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