North Korea blows up liaison office in row over defectors' leaflet campaign
2020-06-17 09:50:15 source：The Guardian
June 16, 2020
North Korea has blown up a liaison office set up to improve communications with the South in a row over defectors’ plans to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the heavily armed border.
South Korea’s unification ministry said the North had set off an explosion at the joint liaison office at 2:49 pm, in the North Korean border town of Kaesong. The reports, from the Yonhap news agency, added that military sources had heard an explosion and seen smoke rising from the building.
North Korea conformed in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency that it had “tragically ruined” the office with a “terrific explosion”. It said the building’s destruction had come “in the wake of cutting off all communication liaison lines between the North and the South”.
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