{{South Korean workers have returned to the Kaesong industrial park in North Korea, five months after work was halted amid high political tension.}}<\/p>\n
Trucks and cars began crossing the border into North Korea at exactly 08:00 (23:00 GMT Sunday).<\/p>\n
More than 800 South Koreans were due to cross to the jointly-run centre for what is being called a trial restart.<\/p>\n
The zone, just inside North Korea, is home to 123 South Korean factories that employ more than 50,000 North Koreans.<\/p>\n
It is the last functioning inter-Korean joint project and a key source of revenue for Pyongyang.<\/p>\n
But the North withdrew all of its workers in April, as ties between the two Koreas deteriorated in the wake of Pyongyang’s 12 February nuclear test.<\/p>\n
Reopening the complex has taken months of negotiation.<\/p>\n
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