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The Inter-Korean Liaison Office (Korean: 남북공동연락사무소) was a joint liaison office of North Korea and South Korea located in North Korea's Kaesong Industrial Region. In the absence of formal diplomatic relations, the building functioned as a de facto embassy and provided a direct communication channel for the two nations. [ 1 ]
After the signing of the Panmunjom Declaration at the inter-Korean Summit in April 2018, the two sides agreed to establish a "permanent liaison office". [2] However, due to the visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to North Korea, the office initially scheduled to open in August 2018 was postponed to open on September 14 officially. [3]
North Korea also has a mission to the UN in Paris and an Ambassador to the UN at the UN Office at Geneva. [6] [7] Since North Korea does not have an embassy to the United States, the mission is its only form of diplomatic representation it has in the country. [8] In 2016, following the detention of US citizen Otto Warmbier in North Korea, the ...
North Korea said it was quitting the joint liaison office set up in September in the border city of Kaesong after a historic summit between leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea's President Moon Jae ...
North Korea reversed a decision to pull out of an inter-Korean liaison office by sending some officials back to work on Monday, South Korea said, a turnaround that came after U.S. President Donald ...
North Korea on Tuesday blew up a joint liaison office set up in a border town in 2018 to foster better ties with South Korea after threatening action if defectors continued with a campaign of ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions of North Korea. In the Cold War era its foreign policy was focused on the Soviet bloc countries, while it actively courted allies in the developing world . This was more out of political necessity, as North Korea competed with South Korea for diplomatic recognition.
North 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 ...