After threats: Seoul: North Korea liaison office is beyond the border

North Korea has blown up, according to South Korean figures, a liaison office for the relations of the two States. The Explosion occurred on Tuesday at 14.49 hr

After threats: Seoul: North Korea liaison office is beyond the border

North Korea has blown up, according to South Korean figures, a liaison office for the relations of the two States. The Explosion occurred on Tuesday at 14.49 hrs (local time), according to the unification Ministry. The building was located in the city of Kaesong, just North of the border between the two States.

North Korea had previously threatened that the liaison office to demolish. It is the threat in the Wake of voiced increasingly sharp criticism of the fact that South Korean activists will not stop the Propaganda leaflets over the border in the North fly. "Our army is monitoring the situation carefully, in which the inter-Korean relations to deteriorate rapidly," said the poor leadership of the internationally isolated country on Tuesday. There are plans of the government and the work would be considered a party, under which the army in the zones could advance, and which had been demilitarized under the agreement between the two countries, was quoted as saying the General staff of the state media. Also, he hinted, the people's army could, in turn, will send leaflets to South Korea.

Half a Million leaflets with balloons

The plans show that the front line should be transformed into a fortress and the military vigilance against South Korea. Details of the zones into which the military could re-occur, were not called.

The Communist leadership of North Korea feels by the further dissemination of leaflets by South Korean activists and North Korean refugees on the border provoked. In the end of may were sent with balloons about half a Million leaflets against the autocratic leadership in Pyongyang across the border. Pyongyang accuses the government in Seoul, to tolerate these for years conducted a campaign on.

Date Of Update: 16 June 2020, 09:19