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The Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea has long symbolized hopes for peace and unity on the Korean Peninsula.
Opened in 2004, it housed South Korean factories that employed North Korean workers.
Joint production trudged along until 2016,
when South Korea turned off the lights in response to advances in North Korea's nuclear program.
Subsequent attempts to restart the project faltered.
This month, Kim Jong-un, North Korea's dictator,
made clear that it has no future by blowing up the roads that connect Kaesong to the South.
The destruction of the roads is just one sign of rising tensions on the peninsula.
North Korea has strengthened its ties with Russia,
dispatching an estimated 11,000 troops to help Vladimir Putin wage war against Ukraine.
South Korea fears that Mr. Putin will provide sensitive missile or nuclear technology in return.
On October 31,
North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in almost a year,
which recorded the longest flight time yet of 87 minutes.
It may also conduct a nuclear test around America's elections next week.