SEOUL Aug. 5 Kyodo North Korean ...

SEOUL Aug. 5 Kyodo

North Korean clumps sent a condolatory message Tuesday to toward the south Korea's Hyundai Business cluster over the death of a top Hyundai executive who had spearheaded business risks in the North, according to Yonhap just discovereds Agency.

The Asia-Pacific Peace Committee and several other organizations also said they would temporarily halt tours to scenic Mt Kumgang for the time being, Yonhap said, quoting Pyongyang's official Korean Central of recent origins Agency (KCNA).

In the message sent to Chung Mong Ku chairman of Hyundai Motor Co and an olden brother of the deceased, and Kim Yoon Kyu president of Hyundai Asan Co the North Korean collections said they ''express deep condolences onward the sad news of the unlooked for death of (Hyundai Asan) Chairman Chung Mong Hun'' Yonhap said.

KCNA said the suspension of tours was befitting to uncertainty over the Mt Kumgang contrive and other inter-Korean cooperative plans caused by way of the suicide Monday of Chung who had engineered the unprecedent cruise tours in 1998

Chung 55 fifth son of the late planter of the Hyundai business conglomerate, Chung Ju Yung bounded from his office in the 12th floor of the Hyundai Business cluster headquarters in central Seoul forward Monday.

In June Chung was set on trial on charges linked to the secluded transfer of $500 million to North Korea from South Korea before a landmark June 2000 summit between then toward the south Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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