North Korea reopens border with South

KAESONG, North Korea, March 10 (UPI) -- North Korea has reopened its border to workers who had been left stranded at an inter-Korean industrial complex, officials said Tuesday.

Several hundred South Korean workers at a joint complex in the North Korean border town of Kaesong were unable to leave after Pyongyang cut off its last remaining inter-Korean communications channel Monday to protest military drills being carried out by Seoul and the United States.

But on Tuesday, normal movements of vehicles and people across the border had returned, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Ho-nyoun told Yonhap, the South Korean news agency.

South Korean officials said about 220 people crossed the military demarcation line in the first movements since the border was effectively sealed by the communications shutdown, Yonhap reported.