South Korea's unification minister says door is still open for talks with North Korea on the suspended Kaesong industrial zone.

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South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae on Tuesday April 30, said the door was still open for talks with North Korea over the suspended Kaesong industrial zone.

North Korea on Friday rejected a South Korean proposal for talks aimed at restarting the joint factory zone, saying the South had acted in an "unpardonable" manner to jeopardise a "precious" legacy of the rivals' bid to seek peace.

North Korea held back seven of 50 remaining South Koreans at the suspended factory zone north of the heavily armed border on Monday, citing last-minute checks on taxes and wages.

The North withdrew its 53,000 workers from the complex this month amid spiralling tension between the two Koreas. The North had prevented South Korean workers and supplies from getting in to the zone since April 3.

South Korean officials said the seven remaining workers were not at risk. But the delay was another complication in what had been a decade-long experiment merging the affluent South's capital and the North's cheap labour as a trial on commercial cooperation.

The two Koreas remain technically at war, under a truce rather than a ceasefire, that ended hostilities in their 1950-53 conflict. North Korea, angry at U.N. sanctions and joint South Korean-U.S. military drills, has in recent weeks threatened both countries with nuclear attack.

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