Publicado em 16 de junho de 2020
North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border, in an explosive rebuke to Seoul that appeared designed to draw maximum global attention with little immediate risk of war.
The move represented North Korea’s most serious provocation in years and follows an escalating series of threats against South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s government. The state-run Korean Central News Agency said in a statement that the office -- the most concrete achievement from series of summits between the two Koreas in 2018 was -- was “tragically ruined with a terrific explosion.”
In Seoul, Moon’s top security advisers convened and the country’s military went to a higher level of alert. South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul, who was at parliament when the explosion occurred across the border, said the move had been “expected.”
The destruction of the building comes about a week after Kim Jong Un’s regime abandoned its operations at the South Korea-funded facility, which allowed officials from both sides to communicate around the clock.
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