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South Korea is still sending tourists to a mountain resort in the North and maintaining a joint economic zone, despite pressure to cancel the projects after Pyongyang’s nuclear test. The country has its reasons for refusing to shutter key projects that help keep Kim Jong Il’s regime afloat, including competition with China for influence over the impoverished nation. South Korea and China together account for two-thirds of overseas trade for the communist North, and South Korea hopes to one day reunite the two Koreas. Full Story