The number of North Korean workers at the inter-Korean industrial complex in the border city of Gaesong topped ten-thousand last month.

According to the Unification Ministry in Seoul, 14-thousand North Korean workers were employed at the Gaesong Industrial Park as of April tenth.

Manufacturing workers numbered ten-thousand last month, the largest total since the inter-Korean joint venture went into operation in 2004. The rest are construction workers and managerial staff.

The average age of the North Korean workers is 31-point-three. Women accounted for 83 percent of the North Korean labor pool at the industrial complex. Employees from the North manufactured an average of 13-hundred-78 dollars' worth of goods per head in March.

Meanwhile, the Gaesong Industrial Complex churned out products worth 13-point-28 million dollars in March with 23-point-eight percent marked for export. The park's monthly exports exceeded three million dollars for the first time in March.