The South Korean government is awaiting a response from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after it proposed working-level talks with the North Korean government to discuss normalization of a jointly run factory park in the border city of Kaesong.
The industrial complex in the North Korean City of Kaesong at the border of the two countries has been closed down since April following a joint military exercise between the U.S. and South Korea at the border.
Pyongyang initially pulled out its 53,000 workers in protest against the joint military drill and Seoul ordered its managers at the factory complex to leave immediately.
The closure of the factories took place amid high tensions over the Korean peninsula with almost a daily string of warnings back and forth between the two neighboring countries.
The Seoul government made the talk-offer last Thursday and the meeting was proposed for Saturday but the Pyongyang government is yet to respond.
However, Pyongyang responded to a plea made by the South Korean business managers seeking permission to move their goods and equipment out of the Kaesong complex as they fear the rainy season might damage the equipment at the industrial complex, according to the South Korean government.
Earlier the North Korean government had denied permission to enter the complex to check the factory.
Washington in recent months has sponsored several U.N sanctions and even urged Beijing, which is Pyongyang's ally, to pressurize the North Korean government to drop its nuclear ambitions.
Refusing to denuclearize its missile and nuclear weapons, Pyongyang last month said a new war could take place "at any moment," blaming the United States for escalating tensions over the Korean peninsula.
Pyongyang held a series of nuclear and missiles tests earlier this year despite warnings from Washington and Seoul as well as international communities.
