North Korea threatens South over mountain tours (AP)

SEOUL, South Korea ? North Korea is threatening to strip a South Korean conglomerate of its exclusive right to conduct tours to the impoverished country over what it calls the South's strategy of isolating it through international sanctions.

South Korea suspended tours to the North's scenic Diamond Mountain resort in 2008 after a South Korean was shot to death there. Pyongyang has proposed resuming the tours but has rebuffed Seoul's calls for an investigation into the shooting.

An unidentified spokesman for the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee said in a statement released early Saturday by the Korean Central News Agency that the North had informed South Korea's Hyundai Group that it "may terminate" the conglomerate's monopoly right to conduct the tours.

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