NORTH and South Korea have failed again to reach agreement on reopening their jointly-run industrial estate as they wrangled over who was to blame for its shutdown.
A fourth round of talks about the complex ended on Wednesday without agreement, but the two sides will meet again next Monday, said Seoul's chief delegate Kim Ki-Woong.
The Kaesong estate in North Korea, the last remaining symbol of cross-border co-operation, shut down in April as military tensions mounted after the North's February nuclear test and South Korean-US war games.
Dialogue resumed in recent weeks but little progress has been made amid squabbles over which side should take responsibility for the suspension of business there.
Wednesday's discussions appeared to be a repeat of previous rounds, with each side refusing to budge on conditions for resuming operations at the estate, built after a landmark inter-Korean summit in 2000.
The South urged the North to promise not to cause another closure and to take a respectful and constructive position to resolve the issue, according to an official with Seoul's unification ministry.
However, the North reiterated its previous position that operations at the zone should be normalised as soon as possible, the official said.
"There was a big difference" over how to work out a legal framework to prevent a future shutdown, Kim told reporters at the end of Wednesday's talks.
Kaesong was previously a valuable source of hard currency for the impoverished North.
At a meeting earlier this month, the two sides agreed in principle to reopen the estate, where 53,000 North Koreans worked in 123 South-owned factories producing textiles or light industrial goods.
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