North Korea has opened its border with South Korea.

March 17, the DPRK has opened the border to the citizens of South Korea, working on joint ventures in the North Korean border Kaesong, were able to get to work, sends agency Associated Press.

North Korea has unilaterally closed the border after 9 March to protest against the start of joint US-South Korean military exercises, which will last until March 20.

This led to a major industrial area in Kaesong, where more than 80 companies, organized with the participation of the South Korean capital, has suspended work.

South Korea delivers on raw materials companies, the production is organized with the close involvement of South Korean managers and professionals. This complex in Kaesong employs 38 thousand citizens of the DPRK.

Recall that the DPRK in the past more than once increases throughput mode, or completely closed the border to exert political pressure on Seoul. Nevertheless, the border and then opened, as the companies in Kaesong an important section of North Korean earnings.

Today's worsening relations between the north and the south linked to Pyongyang's intention to carry out in early April launch of the telecommunications satellite. In South Korea, the U.S. and Japan do not exclude that there actually may be a test of new ballistic missiles. Japan and the United States threatened to shoot her.

In response, the DPRK said that the attempt to shoot down a satellite to be seen as a declaration of war. To a large extent, given rise to growing tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul have joint military exercises of South Korea and the United States. North Korea has accused Barack Obama in the preparation of aggression.

In January, North Korea canceled the peace agreement with the South and led his army on high alert. In addition, Pyongyang said that does not guarantee the safety of South Korean passenger aircraft, the air trapped near the boundaries of the DPRK.