The government lifted restrictions Monday on the number of South Korean visitors to the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea.

With the lifting of the travel restrictions, the companies will decide the number of workers allowed into the complex on their own.

But a government official says it may again place restrictions on cross-border travel depending on developments in inter-Korean relations.
North Korea has yet to release a South Korean worker who was detained in the North’s border city March 30th for allegedly denouncing the North’s communist regime.

The Unification Ministry had ordered South Korean companies to minimize the number of their staff at the South-North joint industrial complex ahead of the North’s rocket launch on April fifth.