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Inter-Korean Liaison Office Demolition Incident) refers to the bombing of the Inter-Korean Liaison Office located in Kaesong, Democratic People's Republic of Korea on June 16, 2020. The two Koreas decided to close the office on January 30 in response to the development of the COVID-19 pandemic , and the South Korean staff left on the same day.
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 ]
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 ...
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 an inter-Korean liaison office building just inside its border in an act Tuesday that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy with the ...
Kim Jin-moon of the South Korean-based Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, suggested that the incident was planned by members of the General Bureau of Reconnaissance to prove their loyalty to Kim Jong Un. [68] August 20, 2015: As a reaction to the August 4 landmines, South Korea resumed playing propaganda on loudspeakers near the border. [69]
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 ...
In 2020, North Korea blew up the Inter-Korean Liaison Office in Kaesong, which used to serve as a de-facto South Korean embassy. In December last year, state media reported that North Korea's ...