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(25 May 2009) SHOTLIST
Incheon International Airport, Seoul
1. Mid of South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan coming out of arrivals
2. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Yu Myung-hwan, South Korean Foreign Minister:
"North Korea's nuclear test is violating the denuclearisation agreement which North Korea kept until now, and it is nullifying the progress of the six-party-talks till now. Especially, it is in total violation of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1718, so I believe this issue will be discussed revolving around the United Nations."
3. Close up of Yu leaving the airport
4. Close up of Yu exiting the airport and getting in the car
5. Mid of car departing
Seoul
6. Spokesman of Foreign Ministry walking up to podium
7. Cutaway cameramen
8. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Moon Tae-young, South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman:
"To cope with the serious threats that weapons of mass destruction and missile proliferation pose to world peace and security, the South Korean government has decided to accept the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)'s underlying principle on May 26, 2009. However, the South-North Maritime agreement between South and North Korea will still be applied."
Dorasan border, South Korea
9. Various of traffic passing the Dorasan CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine) post to travel into Kaesong Industrial District
10. Sign saying (in Korean) "Departure"
11. People filling out forms
12. Various of people going through security to enter Kaesong Industrial District
16. Interior of Dorasan CIQ
17. Man in waiting area, watching TV
18. Television screen broadcasting report on North Korea test
19. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Park Bum-chul, South Korean worker:
"I wish that we could all comfortably come and go. Since these problems often occur, people who come and go always feel insecure. Family members worry when we go up there (to Kaesong Industrial Complex)."
20. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Choi Seung-ki, South Korean worker:
"Since these kind of things happen often, I do not have any different feelings about it. It seems like I am going there (Kaesong Industrial Complex) as usual. There always have been problems like this."
21. Road sign to Kaesong
22. South Korean security
23. Cargo trucks lined-up
24. Crossing point
STORYLINE
South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan returned to Seoul early on Tuesday, cutting short a meeting of foreign ministers from Asia and Europe in Vietnam to deal with the crisis sparked by North Korea's nuclear test.
Pyongyang defiantly declared that it carried out a powerful underground nuclear test on Monday - reportedly many times larger than a 2006 test - in a major provocation in the escalating international standoff over its rogue nuclear and missile programmes.
In response to the test, South Korea on Tuesday announced it would join a US-led initiative to intercept ships suspected of spreading weapons of mass destruction.
The Foreign Ministry announced the country would immediately join the Proliferation Security Initiative, which began in 2003 to deter states such as North Korea and Iran from trade in missile and nuclear technology.
South Korea's move to join the security initiative was meant "to cope with the serious threats that weapons of mass destruction and missile proliferation pose to world peace and security", Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young told reporters.
North Korea had in the past warned it would consider the South's full participation in the programme as a declaration of war.
At least one South Korean worker waiting to cross the border to go to work at Kaesong said the latest developments were nothing new.

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