On Tuesday, North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border, after days of increasingly virulent rhetoric from Pyongyang.
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Photo: IANS)
US on Tuesday urged North Korea to avoid further “counterproductive” steps after it blew up a liaison office on the border with the South.
State Department spokesperson said,”The United States fully supports the ROK’s efforts on inter-Korean relations and urges the DPRK to refrain from further counterproductive actions”.
On Tuesday, North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border, after days of increasingly virulent rhetoric from Pyongyang.
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Last week it announced it was severing all official communication links with South Korea.
The leaflets — usually attached to hot air balloons or floated in bottles — criticise North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for human rights abuses and his nuclear ambitions.
On Monday, the left-leaning Moon urged the North not to “close the window of dialogue”.
Earlier Tuesday, North Korea’s army said it was “fully ready” to take action against the South, including re-entering areas that had been demilitarised under an inter-Korean agreement.
The two Koreas remain technically at war after Korean War hostilities ended with an armistice in 1953 that was never replaced with a peace treaty.
Last week,the United States had criticized North for cutting communications lines with the South and urged Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table.
The threats come with inter-Korean ties at a standstill, despite three summits between the North’s Kim Jong Un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in in 2018.
Earlier, the North had threatened to close the liaison office with the South and threatened further steps to make Seoul “suffer.”
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