No box of chocolates: South Korea border town laid low by swine fever, not shells from North

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No box of chocolates: South Korea border town laid low by swine fever, not shells from North
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For the first time in 10 years, Kong Ji-ye's chocolate-making machines sit ...

PAJU, South Korea - For the first time in 10 years, Kong Ji-ye’s chocolate-making machines sit idle in Paju city, near the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas.

Kong, 47, makes souvenir chocolates for tourists on their way to the DMZ. But four months ago Seoul halted all DMZ tours in a bid to stop the spread of African swine fever from the North - the disease can be transmitted by human traffic and has decimated pig herds in the South and across Asia. The extreme response by Seoul is because South Korea suspects the fever spread from the North: The South’s first confirmed case in September was at a pig farm in Paju, less than four months after North Korea’s own outbreak.

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