SEOUL: South Korean businessmen with plants in the shuttered North-South industrial estate of Kaesong suggested Tuesday that North Korea had made some tangible concessions in negotiations to reopen the complex.

In a statement urging both governments to resolve the issue as soon as possible, the association representing the 123 South Korean firms in Kaesong said that the North’s proposal at the sixth round of talks last week had been “forward-looking.”

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