He curtailed nearly 10 years of uncritical South Korean aid and investment in the North, pending progress in efforts to end the North's nuclear weapons programs.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

It turns out that it didn't turn into World War III and -maybe they did shut down the housing or they must have curtailed it, but it created that boom.

结果没有爆发第三次世界大战,也许政府真的关闭了房产市场,至少他们限制了房地产,而这促进了房地产繁荣

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He says it is an all-out shutdown. Regularly scheduled tours of South Korea's side of the heavily armed inter-Korean border were abruptly curtailed Thursday after the North's announcement came out, as a safety precaution.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27