North Korea Blows Up Joint Liaison Office As Tensions With South Korea Rise
North Korea is said to have blown up a joint liaison office it shares with South Korea, amid growing tensions over defectors sending leaflets into the North.
Reports from South Korea say an explosion was heard at 2.49pm local time before smoke was seen rising from the four-storey industrial complex building, which is used to facilitate communications between the two Koreas.
Seoul’s Unification Ministry has since confirmed that the building, located in the border town of Kaesong, had been destroyed earlier today, June 16.
You can see a clip of the smoke billowing out the building here:
North Korea blows up liaison office on its side of border with South https://t.co/vLr1XSEGw6 by @HeeShin pic.twitter.com/PSv4E2wGop
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 16, 2020
Fortunately, the complex had been closed in January as a result of the current health crisis, meaning no one was in it at the time of the explosion.
The incident came just hours after the North threatened to move its army into the neutral zone amid growing tensions over defectors sending leaflets criticising North Korea leader Kim Jong Un over the border via balloons.
North Korea has claimed these messages violated the peace agreement, while the country’s General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) confirmed it is getting ready to send troops into the demilitarised area between the two countries to ‘turn the line into a fortress’.
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