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North Korea Blows Up Inter-Korean Liaison Office
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variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNorth Korea has blown up the liaison office between the two Koreas, following days of tension between the neighbors.South Korea’s Unification Ministry sent out a one-line message on Tuesday afternoon: “North Korea blows up Kaesong Liaison Office at 14:49.”North Korea was angered by the floating of anti-regime leaflets from the South by former defectors.
It has also apparently tired of diplomacy. In recent days, the regime publicly said that dialogue with the U.S. is pointless, and that South Korea should stop its call for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.In a series of mounting reactions, North Korea closed the Liaison Office and stopped responding to scheduled twice-daily hotline phone calls between.
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