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Lawmaker says drought threatens Kaesong inter-Korean complex

MoU says recent rain, water storage means Kaesong doesn't face an emergency for now

A drought in North Korea may result in the Kaesong Industrial Complex being shut down, a South Korean lawmaker asserted on Wednesday.

Sim Jae-kwon of the New Politics Alliance for Democracy said that, according to data from the Ministry of Unification (MoU), there is a possibility that the operations of the complex being shut down due to North Korea’s water shortage.

Sim, a member of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, said that from last December, the complex has been receiving 5,000 tons of water rather than the usual 9,000.

According to the data from the Kaesong weather