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"ref": "2013 April 2, Chico Harlan, “North Korea bars southern workers from industrial complex”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-04-04",
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"ref": "2016 February 10, Choe Sang-hun, “South Korea to Shut Joint Factory Park, Kaesong, Over Nuclear Test and Rocket”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-02-12, Asia Pacific",
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"ref": "2020 September 24, “North Korea shot dead South Korean in its waters: Seoul”, in France 24, sourced from Seoul (AFP), archived from the original on 2021-11-30, Live news",
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