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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]
The liaison office in Kaesong - a gleaming blue-glass four-storey structure in an otherwise drab industrial city - was "ruined with a terrific explosion," North Korea's state news agency KCNA said.
North Korea blew up the liaison office, set up in 2018 on its side of the border to foster better ties, after threatening retaliation for North Korean defectors in the South waging a propaganda ...
The agency said the area was part of a now-shuttered industrial park where the liaison office was located. North Korea had earlier threatened to demolish the office as it stepped up its fiery ...
Republic of Korea (Inter-Korean Liaison Office) [26] The Inter-Korean Liaison Office was demolished by North Korea on June 16, 2020. [27] Pyongyang
South Korea filed a 44.7 billion won ($35 million) damage suit against North Korea on Wednesday for blowing up a joint liaison office just north of their border in 2020, which highlighted a ...
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 ...