SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea detailed plans Monday to radically curtail ties with South Korea, announcing the end of daily cross-border train service and tours of a historic city in response to what it called Seoul’s “confrontational” policy.
North Korea’s army also said it will expel some South Koreans from a joint industrial zone, but it stopped short of closing the South Korean-run factories that are a key source of hard currency for the impoverished nation.
South Korea expressed “serious regret” and urged the North to reverse its decision.
The announcement laid out the North’s first concrete measures to carry out its threat to restrict cross-border traffic with the South starting Dec. 1, and it marked an escalation of tension between the two countries still technically at war.
