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N KOREA TO BOYCOTT MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS AMID STRAINED TIES.
SEOUL, May 1 Asia Pulse - North Korea said on April 24 that it will boycott a joint May Day festival with South Korea, citing Seoul's tougher stance toward Pyongyang.
Labor groups of the Koreas have marked the May 1 anniversary together with a soccer friendly, joint survey of historic sites, seminars and meetings since 2001. The event, mostly held in the North, has been one of the symbols of rapprochement since the historic first summit between leaders of the two Koreas in June 2000.
This year's event was expected to be held in Pyongyang around May 1 if an agreement was reached between the two sides.
North Korea informed a South Korean delegation from two umbrella labor unions of its decision not to hold this year's event during the group's visit to Mt. Kumgang for talks during April 10-11, Kim Yeong-je, chief of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions' unification bureau, said.
Pyongyang said President Lee Myung-bak's failure to honor key inter-Korean economic projects agreed upon at last year's inter-Korean summit and his "hostile" remarks toward the communist state were the reasons for the boycott, he said.
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Source: HighBeam Research, N KOREA TO BOYCOTT MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS AMID STRAINED TIES.