6 hours agoNorth Korea blows up the joint liaison office with South Africa
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)North Korea has launched a joint liaison office with the South near the northern border city of Kaesong. The move comes just hours after the North threatened military action on the Korean border. This office opened in 2018 to help Koreans officially in a state of war communicate. It [...]
The move comes just hours after the North threatened military action on the Korean border.
This office opened in 2018 to help Koreans officially in a state of war communicate. It had been empty since January due to the limitations of Covid-19.
In a statement, South Korea warned that it would strongly respond “if North “continues to exacerbate the” situation.
The collapse of the office, he said, removes the expectations of all who wanted the development of intergovernmental relations and the settlement of peace in the Korea” Peninsula.
The government makes it clear that the whole responsibility of this situation lies in North”.
Tensions between North and South Korea have escalated for weeks, driven by defence groups in the South by sending propaganda across the border, the BBC reports.
