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9/10/2013 10:10:13 PM

Aisha North: The Manuscript of Survival – Part 352



Aisha North Manuscript of SurvivalThe Manuscript of Survival – Part 352, channeled by Aisha North, September 10, 2013 at http://aishanorth.wordpress.com

Let us begin this missive by thanking you all for the tenacity you have all shown these last few days. Much seems to be in turmoil now, and it can be very hard indeed to keep the balance in all of this heaving to and fro. For the energies are churning around now, and as they do so, much will come to the surface that has been hitherto hidden.

Some of it may be seen as a nuisance, while other things will be seen for the true treasures they really are. Remember, you all carry within you a real treasure trove of spiritual knowledge and power, and now, much of this will be washed out much in the same way that grains of gold are washed out from a pan of sand.

So again we say, even if times are challenging in all sorts of ways, do not forget to look at yourself and see the deep well of knowledge, power and wisdom that you harbour within. Again, this may become more than obscured by all of the noise that is being emitted at the moment, both from your own physical body, but also from the world at large.

So let us take this opportunity to once again remind you of the same old advice of remembering to connect with your own true core as often as you possibly can. For if you do, you will feel the true strength you carry within getting ever closer to the surface.

It might not seem like it for some of you at the moment, but you are indeed already starting to step into your new shoes as it were. Or rather, you are starting to step into your old shoes, the ones that show your real imprint, and who will take you far, far into the future. For what you truly are, is so much more than what you have already seen.

And even if some of you have already gotten more than a few short glimpses of the real you that is still very much hidden behind this veil of forgetfulness, know that this too is simply a tiny little taste of what you have in store. For what you have in store, is of such a magnitude you will not even be able to wrap your head around it at this stage. But soon you will, and it will blow away all of the cobwebs still clinging on to that old and worn human frame you still consider as the ”real you”.

So again we say hang in there, and remember to check in with yourself frequently now, lest you forget who you are aiming to get to know intimately once again after this very, very long sojourn within the confines of being simply ”you” in a human form.


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9/10/2013 10:11:38 PM

Jennifer Hoffman: There is More at the Core

jennifer-hoffmanJennifer Hoffman: There is More at the Core. September 8, 2013. http://enlighteninglife.com/

I have long suspected that I had some strong past life issues around being a prisoner, being shackled, persecuted, tormented, judged and suffering as a result of injustice, power, persecution, and control. But I had no idea, until recent health issues forced me to look deeply within my core for clues to these issues and understand how far back they go and to what extent I have lived my life through them.

For the past three years I have noticed this trend in client coaching too, as I can always trace present life issues to past life traumas and show them how they can achieve healing by getting to this often elusive core because past life issues generally come up around challenging and disempowering life issues.

In my case, and I won’t go into lots of detail here, but the shorter version is in one lifetime I was in a French dungeon, shackled to a wall for my political beliefs. In another, which looked like ancient Sumeria, I was a powerful teacher who was enslaved by those she was supposed to be teaching, persecuted, imprisoned, and eventually executed for refusing to be quiet about her beliefs. In both lifetimes, the person (me) was shackled at the ankles and died by drowning, both powerful karmic themes for me today.

In both lifetimes I had moved from anger to despair, at my situation. Struggle was futile, escape was impossible, and in a modern-day insight, I realized that the only way I knew of escaping from prison was to die, which is what nearly occurred with my current health issue. But there has to be another option, which is why I am still here and still alive.

The core was revealed, which is a repetitive situation around ankle injuries (my ankles are painfully swollen and sore), being immobilized or ‘imprisoned’ or paralyzed (it’s hard to walk and I am very tired during my recovery), and water (my sewer backed up in my basement this week). So I have the scenario, now it’s time to create a different solution to end the karma and to step out of this cycle that has repeated itself so many times.

If you can relate to any of this, there is powerful healing available to you once you are able to identify the karmic cycle and create new options for your life. What’s the core issue around a karmic cycle? It’s the thing that keeps repeating itself over and over again, maybe it looks a little different each time, but it is the same kind of situation.

Why is it important? Because it is the reason for your lifetime, to experience it and to create a different outcome. How do you manage it? Unless you are consciously aware of it, you do the same thing each time, unaware of what is happening and not seeing the repetition. With awareness, you can see the pattern, create multiple solutions, and have the courage to implement at least one of them. Usually, the answer is the one thing that you do not want to do or have been fighting.

But there is a reason for all of this (isn’t there always a reason), and it has to do with Ascension, transformation, transitions, and new beginnings. As Jesus said, ‘you cannot put new wine in old wine skins,’ and I don’t think he was talking about alcoholic beverages. If we’re the ‘new wine’ we can’t step into our new paradigms still carrying our old beliefs, habits, energies, frequencies, and karmic patterns.

Do you remember the reference to the ‘eye of the needle’ in the September 1 New Earth Energy call? (you can find out more about it here)? How much karmic baggage do you think you can take with you as you go through the eye of the needle in your life (which is the bridge between 3D and higher dimensions)?

What do we do to release our baggage? We arrive at what we think is its core and uncover that truth. Then we dig a little deeper to find the bigger truth, the one that lets us see the connections between every situation, relationship, person, belief, and event that we have experienced in our lifetime, uncover the buried lifetimes they are related to, and see how we have built and fit our lives to re-create them.

And if we aren’t ready to see that yet we will get a big push, in the form of a life event that compels us to really take notice, to explore those areas until we are willing to face ourselves in all of our aspects, history and energy so we know exactly what is required to bring us back to wholeness.

It is a journey from healing to wholeness and whatever is at our core is preventing us from being ‘whole’. Karmic cycles are energy drains which use our energy, limiting our ability to expand into higher aspects and to release the density necessary to achieve new frequencies and cross over into higher dimensions. Within our karma is how we have experienced 3D energy that now weighs our soul down with pain and fear. Like the ballast that weighs down a hot air balloon, if the balloon is to rise, the ballast must go over the edge.

The choice is ours, to stay on the ground or to rise, to be in a karmic cycle or to forge a new path. There is no better time than now to do this level of work, as the entire universe is encouraging us to complete this. It’s your time and your turn, are you willing to throw off some ballast and soar?

Copyright (c)2013 by Jennifer Hoffman. All rights reserved. You may translate, quote, copy and link to this article, only on free, non-commercial and non-donation based websites and blogs, as long as you include the author’s name and a working link back to this website. All other uses are strictly prohibited. http://enlighteninglife.com/core/


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9/10/2013 10:12:56 PM

Master Kuthumi via Natalie Glasson: The Existence of Being



Master KuthumiMaster Kuthumi: The Existence of Being, channeled by Natalie Glasson, September 6, 2013 at http://omna.org

Beloved ones, I extend the golden light of the Christ into your being to illuminate the beauty, love and luminosity that you hold. We are all the Christ energy and hold the Christ’s aspect of the Creator within our beings.

This symbolises that we are all conscious love beings, consciously attuned and aligned with all that is the Creator. Do you give yourself complete permission with each day that you awaken upon the Earth to be a conscious love being, attuned and aligned with all that is the Creator?

In this golden era of the Christ where conscious love is required and present within your being to be experienced, it is now time to permit yourself to be and experience yourself as the beautiful being that you are.

Where there is conscious love, there will always be flow, purpose, truth, awareness, clarity, healing and divine experience. It is now time to consciously give yourself permission to exist as a conscious love being upon the Earth; alert to the actions, reactions, interweaving and manifestation of love.

This is a dispensation that is being shared with all Ascended Masters and Archangels so that we are encouraged to share the same with you, reminding you of your divine right which is so essential for you to obtain and accept in your current physical reality. We encourage you to accept your own divine self and to remain in conscious integration and merging with your divine self for a more complete experience and manifestation.

Do you remember your first experiences upon awakening into your spiritual journey? Do you remember the connections you made, the understandings you received, the pain that you released? Such experiences continue in your physical reality each day whether you are aware of them or not, there is a purpose to each spiritual or self-exploration experience that you create.

The purpose is that you are asking yourself to BE in and as your divine self, to BE in and as your conscious love and to BE in and as the Creator. When you meditate you are asking yourself to BE in and experience the peace within your being with an awareness of your body, physicality and spiritual essence or soul. You are asking yourself to slow down so that you can take time to be conscious of all that you are and all that is occurring within your being.

Your complete energy is often labelled a BEING, this is to symbolise and describe to you that when you are in greater awareness of your entire energy you are BEING; you are existing in conscious communication, awareness and alignment with yourself. BEING could be likened to allowing yourself to be happy, to radiate or to relax; you can be all these aspects as you move gently through your reality.

When you begin to accept yourself as a BEING and your purpose also as BEING you begin to erase the purpose and attention of Doing, which is to be active without being conscious or attuned to your divine self and the Creator. As you read my communication, do you feel as if you are Doing or BEING? Are you completing an action by reading or are you allowing yourself to be in conscious integration with the words and energy. In many ways it is your perspective that may need to alter in the way that you perceive yourself in achieving and experiencing your reality.

By allowing yourself to BE in each situation and moment of your reality you are centred, aware, alert, conscious, attuned and aligned with all that is occurring within and around you, in truth all that is the Creator. You are open to the divine flow of the Creator; you experience and become the divine flow of the Creator. In truth you are existing with the divine flow of the Creator.

The Creator’s energies are ever flowing and evolving; your energies are the same because you are an aspect or representative of the Creator. BEING is to exist, but there is a need to determine what you choose to exist with or as. Many people hide behind their personalities, create characters or habits that they believe identifies and symbolises them, therefore their character, personality and habits create and define their existence.

When you allow yourself to BE, you are allowing yourself to exist as nothing but also as everything that is the Creator, it can be described as oneness or unity existence. There is nothing that truly defines you and yet you recognise yourself existing as, with and in oneness or conscious awareness with the Creator.

With this existence there is no longer anything that needs to be done in your reality whether goals or mundane actions that needs to be executed. This means that nothing requires you to disconnect from your conscious existence of oneness with the Creator but you are asked to move through experiences and actions allowing the Creator from within you to achieve all, this is to BE.

Being present with conscious awareness of the Creator within you in every situation and experience within your reality means you are always following the guidance and divine will of the Creator. Everything begins to move, be performed and achieved with tremendous ease because you are aligning all of your experience, including yourself, mind, emotions and actions with and as one with the Creator.

Allowing yourself to BE you are encouraged to realise that there are certain aspects of yourself and ego which you will be asked to surrender or let go of because they cause conflict with your existence with and as one with the Creator. The process of surrendering heightens your awareness of the Creator within you while clearing space for you to simply exist, breathing the divine light of the Creator.

BEING isn’t about stillness in the body or reality, there is no need to hide yourself away from humanity, it only asks you to emanate your inner stillness whatever you are experiencing, even if you are dancing wildly. Your inner stillness is a result of your conscious awareness of the Creator within you, flowing through you, guiding you and being of service to and through you.

There are many ways to make a shift into a BEING existence rather than a Doing existence, most of these shifts will come from your own exploration, contemplation and inner insight. It is important to realise that it is most likely that a person focused upon BEING will achieve far more than a person focused upon Doing as they will automatically call upon the universe and the Creator to work through them and inspire them to be in the right places, with divine timing, holding the most appropriate knowledge and attracting all that is needed.

It is also important to realise that you are not missing out on anything, lacking in anything or being punished for anything. When you can be content in your existence but connected to the divine love, abundance, miracles and magic of the Creator then anything is possible and you experience a deep overwhelming contentment. Again you are allowing yourself to exist in the vibration of the Creator with an awareness of all that is the Creator.

The process of BEING can be obtained through an awareness of your centre, bringing your attention back to your centre. Your centre can be a simple feeling of love or joy that you are able to return to no matter what is occurring around and within you. Your centre then expands to return healing, alignment and clarity to all aspects of your energy. You can practice cultivating a feeling of love five times in your day which will allow you to grasp the experience of being as one with the Creator.

Another practice is to ask yourself upon waking from your sleep, ‘What shall I BE today?’ or ‘How shall I exist as one with the Creator today?’ You can also ask yourself what you need to do or achieve today but then contemplate how you can achieve this with conscious awareness of the Creator within you. It may be that you need to connect with the Creator energies within you asking for guidance or support.

You may also wish to state to yourself with determination and joy, ‘I now permit myself to exist and BE in conscious oneness with the Creator.’

Over the coming week call upon my energies, Master Kuthumi, let us together contemplate the process of BEING in existence and oneness consciously with all that is the Creator within every moment of your reality. I am ready to inspire and assist you. To BE is also to exist in openness and acceptance.

From my divine BEING to your Divine BEING,

Master Kuthumi

Please share and post with others including the following details: ‘Channelled through Natalie Glasson of the Sacred School of OmNa, omna.org‘. Thank you


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9/11/2013 12:43:24 AM

Saan and the Arcturian Councils: Understand the Power and Potency of your Light

[10Sept2013]

-Channeled through Wes Annac-

You’re coming to find greater and expanded individual and collective understandings about yourselves and this infinite Creation around you.

You’re coming to understand your infinite and unhindered ability to Create a fluid reality you’ve been taught to believe is dense and difficult to move around in, and as you do this, you refine and lighten the vibration around you and help to Create wondrous change for every person on your world to be able to get behind.

You’re bringing about the future you’ve read about in messages from the Company of Heaven for so long, and we continue to salute your efforts in bringing about your future and perceiving of the metaphysical realms as you exist in an illusory reality you’ve been taught to believe you possess little power to change or bring into alignment with the existence you deserve to be Living.

Every one of you deserves to Live a comfortable existence, and prosperity will be passed around and shared on your world in the time ahead as it’s understood that every soul is meant to experience the wealth that the few have been able to enjoy for so long.

Each of you will work diligently to bring about the new paradigm in the ways you’ve found yourselves best able to, and souls who’ve been at the forefront of communicating with the Company of Heaven and bringing our impressions through will perhaps step-up their efforts in doing so and in representing us in the time ahead.

We are Energy-Beings

Much representation will be needed indeed, as the collective’s general idea concerning what you consider to be extraterrestrials is still quite distorted in view of the truth.

In truth, we are energy-beings who take human form at times and experience Life as pure blissful energy at others.

We are of a fifth-dimensional consciousness and can utilize the option to exist in upgraded humans bodes if we wish to. Many of us choose to and many of us don’t, but when we’re able to exist openly on your world unhindered, we’ll each take bodies in the initial stages of contact so as not to overwhelm your collective with our presence as beings of energy.

When existing in our purest forms as we currently experience them, we’re energy that’s expressed and “seen” as Light. We possess Light bodies that we can take any form as, and in the higher realms you’ll come to find that you can take any form in any moment you wish to.

Your abilities are infinite in these realms, and upon growing back into the fifth dimension we can anticipate many of you happily experimenting with your expanded abilities and the wondrous perceptions you’ll enjoy.

You once knew and understood these perceptions and abilities quite well, but allowed yourselves to take on a dense and temporary human form in an effort to uplift an entire collective of people who’ve remained hindered in finding full consciousness and experiencing the bliss you were/are blessed with experiencing.

Now, from the realms of the Earth you can tap back into the pure bliss of the heavenly realms you’re growing back toward, and your evolution into these realms will continue as you work to uplift the collective and find yourselves reaching personal strides along your evolution.

Enjoy the expanded perceptions that are making themselves known to many of you, because they’ll continue to expand as you continue to embrace the higher dimensions and your ability to access them.

Those of you who make active attempts to connect with the higher dimensions every day are doing a great justice for yourselves, as you’re helping keep your higher-dimensional connection as strong as possible whilst you exist on the Earth and help transmute the dense energy of the collective consciousness.

Dark Facilitates Light

What you’ve seen as darkness is beginning to be understood by the awakening public for what it truly is; necessary for the growth and full bloom of the Light. It is indeed so that Light is bred from darkness, as darkness is a catalyst to the growth and development of Light.

Embrace what you perceive to be your shadow selves, and know that every facet of you is understood, empathized with and Loved infinitely.

Nothing can go unknown or unseen in the higher realms, and everything that’s been done and hidden is known about in these realms.

Despite this, we choose not to judge any soul as we understand that you’ve chosen to exist under the law of freewill in an effort to experience as much of the Earth and the lower dimensions as you possibly could, as you grew back toward the higher realms and brought the lower realms you’ve been existing in with you. (1)

Your collective is benefitting from the actions of the awakening public, as the Light you’re emitting is being radiated to every person around you. Understand the power and potency of your Light and the importance of your presence on the Earth, and worry not when Earthly events seem to be piling up on your or when it could be easy to allow your mood or vibration to dip.

It’ll help to remember that you’re spiritual beings existing on the Earth in an effort to help uplift it’s populace into the states of consciousness you once existed in, though we understand that the pressure of the Earth experience can seem to be too much at times.

We reiterate with Love that you’re never given more than you can handle, though we note with empathy that the difficulty can seem to hold you back at times from experiencing and expressing your pure Light and the joyful and brimming happiness you possess within.

An Instantaneous Connection

Each of you possesses the happiest and most jubilant states of consciousness within, and access to them can be instantaneous if you allow it to be.

We ask for you to see every aspect of your Lives that you’ve come to find joy and happiness from. Actively seek out everything that fills you with a good vibration, because it’s important for your vibration to be refined and lightened enough for you to be able to assist the collective in the energetic sense.

As has been mentioned fruitfully by others in the past, the awakening public and the Lightworkers especially are transmuting the bulk of dense and negative energy accumulated in your collective, and this is another reason balance is essential for you at this time.

When negative emotions or feelings surface that don’t seem to be your own, understand that in this moment they very well couldn’t be, as many of you have vastly volunteered yourselves to take on the collective’s dense energies in an effort to speed up your ascension process and the awakening of your collective that’s to precede it.

You’ve stepped-up your efforts quite a bit to help the Earth and Her collective ascend, even if you don’t yet realize it, and you can attribute the tired and drained feelings many of you tend to experience to the increased work you’ve been performing for the Earth’s ascension.

As many of you continue to awaken, so will your roles for the Earth’s ascension continue to expand. Many of you who are just beginning to understand the higher dimensions and the need to enact widespread change that works for every citizen could very well be at the forefront of the collective consciousness in the time ahead to help establish a ruling body that’s fair and just.

You’ll each find your unique and specific roles to play, and those of you who’ve been activated ahead of time and have found yourselves performing myriad tasks for the Earth’s ascension would perhaps expect to want to rest after the most widespread changes to your Earth have been made.

There will be much to do indeed, but we can say with happiness that the brimming energies you’ll exist in will likely see you more motivated and excited than ever to help as many lower-dimensional planets and civilizations to ascend beyond the Earth as possible.

Universal Travelers Incarnate on the Earth

Those of you who’ll continue to go on uplifting planets and civilizations into ascension after the Earth’s collective has evolved, will be aided greatly in doing so by the Earth’s ascension.

A plethora of awakening Lightworkers incarnate on your Earth now are quite literal Universal travelers, and have made their way to the Earthly realms from other Galaxies, Universes and dimensions, some of which are very far away from the Earth.

Even some of the closest star systems (to Earth) can be seen as quite far away with your limited human capacity to travel, but the technology we and so many others will happily offer in the time ahead will see you able to travel to various different places outside of your Earth with ease.

Your society has been held back from revolutionary technology and insight that could see your entire collective experience abundance and an easy and joyful existence, and our presence as well as the assistance and technology we have to offer have been suppressed for reasons related to your cabal’s desire to maintain control of your planet.

They’ve done much more to control and enslave your populace than even many awakening souls yet realize, and the purposeful crafting of a distorted society that plays upon and feeds separation and hatred in many respects has been essential to keeping humanity in the dark and unaware of the truth of your existence.

Especially in this chaotic time many of you are experiencing on the Earth, we ask for you to seek not only happiness and joy in your Life but the spiritual realms as much as you feel you need. You can find nourishment and restoration with meditation and with other avenues of accessing the spiritual realms, and we wholeheartedly encourage you to explore your opened lines of connection with us and the higher realms in general.

Yes, much on your Earth at present could seem to be of a dire or distressful nature, but truly, there’s nothing for you to worry or be in concern of.

This message has been repeated throughout the ages and will continue to be, because at present, your collective is still quite convinced of the reality of the illusory hologram you exist in that teaches you to accept pain and difficulty.

Your Existence doesn’t have to be Stressful

Your Lives are, again, meant to be joyful and your higher-dimensional connection is meant to be actively explored in this time. As the dear Pleiadians have mentioned, Living a Life far away from the strife being experienced in your collective consciousness and played-out on the world stage can be attained by seeking the spiritual realms and the understanding that you come from a place of pure Love and empathy.

We don’t choose to judge any of you for your actions whilst on the Earth, as we recognize the necessity of experiencing every facet of the lower dimensions as you go about fully understanding yourselves and the reality around you. Experience of the lower dimensions has been an ultimate aim in incarnating, but understand that active higher-dimensional connections await your rediscovery and utilization.

Your existence doesn’t have to be as stressful or painful as many on your Earth tend to let it be. In many cases you’ve convinced yourselves that the difficulty and pain must be rebelled against, and in doing so, you’ve made yourselves much unhappier in attempting to combat feelings or situations you’re actively breeding.

In rebelling against pain or difficulty, you’re actually manifesting it for yourselves. We know that this can make your situation seem difficult as we understand that the overwhelming majority of you seek happiness and joy in your Lives rather than difficulty and strife, but we wish for you to know that those things are fed if rebelled against.

Beyond knowing yourselves in the greatest sense possible, you’re meant to understand how to navigate the Earthly waters, so to speak.

You’re meant to understand just how to exist on the Earth and how to find a joyful and happy experience, and we can say with Love that fighting against experiencing difficult aspects of your Lives can only intensify the difficulty and see you dig yourselves much deeper than you would’ve anticipated or preferred.

Surrendering to the Flow

Learning to surrender one’s ego to the flow of Life-experience helps you lay down the perceived need to fight or rebel against any aspect of your Creation.

There are souls in positions of political and financial influence and power on your world who certainly do deserve to be rebelled against in the sense of not accepting the society they’ve attempted to keep every person in line with, but even rebellion against the cabal can soften when one finds personal bliss and satisfaction with oneself, as well as an unhindered higher-dimensional connection.

The actions of the cabal will float further and further from your minds and hearts as you make deeper meditative connections with the spiritual realms, and as we make our final impressions for this communication, we express that your lightened planetary vibration will herald noticeable effects for you in the form of increased and heightened perceptions.

We note the weight felt by many of you in this moment, and can only say that the two intensified dualities you’ve experienced for so long are coming to merge. As you bring yourselves and your collective together into a state of balance, so does your collective vibration reflect such coming-together and lighten sufficiently for everything to really begin.

Thank you to Saan and the Arcturian Councils.

WesAnnac.com

AquariusParadigm.com

Contributing Editor: The Golden Age of Gaia

(1)- I would imagine that they mean we’re taking the lower realms with us by way of transmutation.

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9/11/2013 7:07:53 PM

Koreas set to restart jointly run factory park

North and South Korea set to reopen factory park, in latest sign of easing tensions


In this photo released by Unification Ministry, South Korean delegates, right, shake hands with their North Korean counterparts at the start of a meeting at Kaesong Industrial District Management Committee in Kaesong, North Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Both Koreas agreed Wednesday to restart operations at a jointly run factory park that Pyongyang shut down in April during a torrent of threats, the latest sign of easing animosity between the rivals. (AP Photo/Unification Ministry)
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North and South Korea agreed Wednesday to restart operations at a jointly run factory park that Pyongyang shut down in April during a torrent of threats, the latest sign of easing animosity between the rivals.

Wariness, however, still lingers in Seoul and Washington over Pyongyang's springtime provocations, which included warnings of nuclear strikes against the allies, and the North's repeated vows to push ahead with nuclear weapons and missile work.

Seoul's Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, said operations at the industrial park, located just north of the heavily armed border separating the two Koreas, would resume sometime after a trial run that starts Monday. The Koreas also plan reunions this month of families divided by the Korean War, and last week restored a military communications channel at the border.

Wednesday's agreement follows through on a development last month, when, after seven rounds of talks, one of which ended in a scuffle, the Koreas agreed that they would work toward opening the factory park. The complex in North Korea's third-largest city, Kaesong, was the last remaining symbol of inter-Korean cooperation until Pyongyang pulled its 53,000 workers.

The Unification Ministry said in a statement that South Korean companies operating at Kaesong would be exempt from paying taxes imposed for operations this year.

The two Koreas also plan to hold an international investors' informational session at Kaesong in October in a bid to attract foreign companies to the park, the statement said. Chief South Korean delegate Kim Kiwoong said the two Koreas hope to begin providing Internet and mobile phone connections to the park as soon as this year and would hold more talks on that.

North Korea's state media later confirmed that work would restart at Kaesong.

While tensions are now easing, North Korea, citing a routine military drill between the U.S. and South Korea, along with U.N. sanctions over its February nuclear test, unleashed an outburst of threatening rhetoric in March and April.

The industrial park combined South Korean initiative, capital and technology with cheap North Korean labor. It was also a rare source of hard currency for North Korea, though the impoverished country chafed at suggestions that it needed the money Kaesong generated.

North Korea is estimated to have received $80 million in workers' salaries in 2012, an average of $127 a month per person, paid in U.S. dollars, according to the Unification Ministry in Seoul.

The shutdown has also been hard on the South Korean entrepreneurs who invested up to 10 years and millions of dollars in Kaesong and were forced to wait, their assembly lines idle, while the governments negotiated. Many felt they'd invested too much to abandon their factory investments or the cheap North Korean labor.

Kaesong hosted small and medium-sized, labor-intensive industries, often apparel and electronics companies. The number of South Korean companies swelled to more than 120. Last year, the factories produced goods worth $470 million.

The decade-old industrial park had survived previous periods of tension, including attacks blamed on Pyongyang that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010, and the shutdown of other big cooperation projects. By the end of 2012, South Korean companies had produced a total $2 billion worth of goods during the previous eight years.

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North and South Korea make a deal


The two rivals agree to reopen a jointly run industrial park that Pyongyang shut down in April.
Latest sign of easing tensions



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