North Korea Friday again closed its border to South Koreans working at a joint industrial estate, just three days after reopening the frontier, officials said. The South's unification ministry said the move stranded about 250 people including three foreigners who intended to return Friday from Kaesong, the Seoul-funded estate built just north of the border. "Our government expresses deep regret over a recurring situation and urges North Korea to immediately normalise (cross-border) passage," ministry spokesman Kim Ho-Nyoun said. On Monday the communist country switched off military phone and fax lines which are used to approve border crossings. It was protesting at an ongoing US-South Korean military exercise which it sees as a rehearsal for invasion.
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