Blowing-up of liaison office: South Korea warns Kim Jong-un's provocations

On the day after the blowing up of the inter-Korean liaison offices by North Korea, the governments in Pyongyang and Seoul are ignored in a war of words with mu

Blowing-up of liaison office: South Korea warns Kim Jong-un's provocations

On the day after the blowing up of the inter-Korean liaison offices by North Korea, the governments in Pyongyang and Seoul are ignored in a war of words with mutual insults and threats. The North Korean military announced, at the same time, military exercises on the border with South Korea to resume and renewed the will to move Regiments in the Kaesong industrial zone and in the mountain Kumgang. Thus, North Korea focuses on the two core pieces of cooperation between the two countries in the past two decades.

Patrick Welter

a correspondent for Economics and policy in Japan, based in Tokyo.

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An offer from the South Korean side, with the posting of representatives from President Moon Jae-in in the North of the thread of the conversation and the crisis, was rejected by Pyongyang brusquely. Kim Yo-jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong-un, spoke according to the North Korean news Agency KCNA of an "insensitive and diabolical" proposal. In a separate statement, Kim Yo-jong mocked the speech of the Moon to 20. Anniversary of the first Korean summit on Monday as the "honey-sweet words of a three man", which were disgusting. Kim threw Moon, not as a lackey of the United States complied with its agreements to the year 2018 with Kim Jong-un. Moon had advertised in the speech on Monday to meet together, the collusion between him and Kim with life.

Date Of Update: 17 June 2020, 08:19