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North Korea destroys liaison office along border with South Korea as tensions escalate

There has been an explosion near the border between North and South Korea, in a dramatic escalation of tensions that have been building for weeks.

Sam Clench @SamClench
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June 16, 20206:12pm

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Picture: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Source:AFP


South Korea says North Korea has destroyed a symbolically important liaison building just north of the border between the two countries, in a troubling act of aggression.

Seoul’s Unification Ministry said the destruction of the structure, in the North Korean border town Kaesong, happened at 2:49pm local time.

The liaison office was opened in 2018 to help the two Koreas communicate with each other following talks between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

No one would have been inside when it exploded, as coronavirus restrictions have kept it empty since January.

“North Korea’s violent destruction of the liaison office at Kaesong is a symbolic blow to inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation,” Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, told the BBC.

“It’s hard to see how such behaviour will help the Kim regime get what it wants from the world, but clearly such images will be used for domestic propaganda.”

Photos from Yonhap News Agency show smoke rising from an industrial park in Kaesong, where the office was located.

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