The government says provision of electricity to the inter-Korean Gaeseong Industrial Complex fell sharply following the suspension of factory operations last month.

Unification Ministry Spokesman Kim Hyung-seok told reporters on Monday that minimum amount of electricity is being supplied to the industrial park.

Another ministry official said that following the withdrawal of North Korean workers from the industrial park on April ninth, demand for electricity from the North in the complex fell which naturally resulted in a drop in supply of electricity. The official stressed that the South had not intentionally reduced the provision of electricity to the plant.

The official added that lighting and a water supply facility are working regularly in the complex.

South Korea had been supplying 100-thousand kilowatts of electricity every day to a substation within the industrial complex via a 16-kilometer-long power cable that passes through the Moonsan Substation in Gyeonggi Province.

The electricity was mostly used to power companies in the industrial park and a water supply facility that provides drinking water to some residents in Gaeseong.