North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK) on Thursday ordered all South Korean workers at the jointly-run Kaesong industrial complex to leave, a day after Seoul said it was suspending operations there.

"South Korean enemy forces will experience themselves the harsh and painful price they should pay for halting the Kaesong industrial complex," the CPRK said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

The CPRK, Pyongyang's body responsible for relations with Seoul, said the South's decision to suspend operations at the Kaesong complex was a "dangerous declaration of war" and a "declaration of an end to the last lifeline of North-South relations."

Pyongyang also declared the area a military control zone, adding that it would seize all property left on site. "We seize all assets of the South Korean companies and related organization including machinery, raw materials and goods," the statement said.

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