North Korea blew up an office set up to foster better ties with South Korea in its border town of Kaesong, after it threatened to take action if defectors went ahead with a campaign to send propaganda leaflets into the North
North Korea’s KCNA state news agency said the liaison office, which had been closed since January over fears of the novel coronavirus, was “tragically ruined with a terrific explosion”.
South Korea’s national security council convened an emergency meeting on Tuesday and said South Korea will sternly respond if North Korea continues to raise tensions. KCNA said the office was blown up to force “human scum and those, who have sheltered the scum, to pay dearly for their crimes”. North Korea refers to defectors as “human scum”.
The building had been originally used as offices for managing operations at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a joint venture between the two Koreas that was suspended in 2016 amid disagreement over the North’s nuclear and missile programmes. Kaesong Industrial Complex is shrouded by smoke in this picture taken from the south side in Paju, South Korea, June 16, 2020. Yonhap via REUTERSSouth Korea’s won weakened by about 0.7% against the dollar in offshore non-deliverable forward trade as reports of the building being blown up emerged after onshore spot trade finished.
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