North Korea refuses envoy factory access
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North Korea has rejected a request from the United States special envoy on human rights in North Korea to visit the Kaesong industrial complex.
An estimated 23,000 North Koreans are employed at nearly 70 South Korean manufacturing facilities in the Kaesong park, just north of the border between the two Koreas.
The envoy, Jay Lefkowitz, has criticised the factory, saying North Koreans working there may be exploited and their wages may be being misappropriated.
Those claims have been dismissed by North Korea's state media.
