North Korea said Monday it would reopen its border with the South,
ending a self-imposed blockade on a vital source of income for
Pyongyang's leaders as their ravaged economy is squeezed by tightening
U.N. sanctions.
It is the latest step by the hermit North to resume some sort of
relationship with an outside world from which it has been all but
isolated by its months of military grandstanding, including a second
nuclear test in May and a series of missile launches.
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