Korean Cardinal visits North Korea

(Vatican Radio) For the first time in history, a Catholic cardinal has visited North Korea. Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, the Archbishop of Seoul and Apostolic Administrator of Pyongyang, went to the joint North-South factory park at Kaesong, North Korea, for a one-day trip on Wednesday to tour the complex and meet the South Koreans who work at the location.

The joint industrial park, located just north of the heavily armed border, is the last remaining cross-border rapprochement project between the rival Koreas. It combines South Korean initiative, capital and technology with cheap North Korean labor. Operations at the decade-old complex were suspended for months last year when tensions sharply rose over repeated North Korean threats of nuclear war.