Seoul, South Korea (AP) - A North Korean Inter-Korea liaison office building has exploded just north of the tense Korean border, South Korea has said.
The building was destroyed in the North Korean border town of Kaesang at 2:49 pm, the Seoul unification ministry said. Tuesday.
North Korea has threatened to demolish the building after an intensified rhetoric over Seoul's failure to stop activists from blowing up the border.
Some experts say that North Korea expresses its disappointment that Seoul is unable to resume joint economic projects due to US-led sanctions.
North Korea's military has threatened to return to the zone on Tuesday under the Inter-Korean Peace Agreement, as the country continues to press for rival talks over South Korea amid nuclear talks with the Trump administration.
The General Staff of the Korean People's Army said it was reviewing a ruling party's recommendation to advance on unspecified border areas, which were demotivated under agreements with the South, which would "turn the front line into a fortress."
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said a few days ago that the North would dismantle the "unruly" inter-Korean liaison office in the border town of Kaesang and leave the military. Give. "Enemies" against the South.
The KPA General Staff said, "Our military is closely watching the current situation in which the (North-South) relations are deteriorating, and the government and the government themselves are prepared to guarantee a strict military commitment to any external actions taken by the government." Same with Off Staff.
"The North (South) Agreement states that it is studying the operational plan to move the army back to the zone, which was pushed into the North-South Agreement and increased military vigilance (South)," according to a statement by the North Korean Central News Agency.
While it is not immediately clear what actions the North Korean military will take on the South, the North is threatening to pull out a bilateral agreement in 2018 to ease tensions at the border.
Korea then jointly took steps to mitigate traditional military threats, such as the establishment of border buffers in land and sea and no-fly zones. He also eliminated some front-line guard positions in symbolic gestures. The answer statement indicates that it no longer respects the buffer zone and that guard posts are re-created.
The North Military said it would open up uncharted territory near the land border and its southwestern waters so that South Korea could send South Korea's anti-South African propaganda pamphlet to a clear Titan-for-Tat. . - Across the Pyongyang border.
Kim Dong-yub, an analyst at Seoul and the Institute of Far Eastern Studies, said North Korean military ships crossed the country's contentious western maritime border to remove North Korean civilian boats. A former South Korean military officer.
The water is sometimes the scene of bloody skirmishes, in which 46 sailors were killed when a South Korean naval ship attacked in 2010. At the end of the 1950–53 Korean War, the United States refused to sink the North and Cheyonne, which did not recognize the unilateral western border.
South Korean Defense Ministry spokeswoman Choi Hyun-soo said South Korean and US militants were closely monitoring the North military and wanted to keep an inter-Korean military pact.
Kim Yo-jong, who recently announced his brother's superior position on inter-Korean affairs, has repeatedly shouted at South Korea in recent weeks about the deterioration of bilateral ties and the failure of the leaflet by defensemen and activists.
In recent months, North Korea has halted nearly all cooperation with the South, expressing frustration over the lack of progress in nuclear talks with Washington, which has been clashing with the Americans, in exchange for some surrender. North Koreans have rejected demands for major sanctions relief. Nuclear capacity. The North has threatened to reject US-led international sanctions and reopen inter-Korean economic cooperation, while the North threatened to withdraw bilateral peace agreements signed by Kim Jong Un during three summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in 2018.
The moon on Monday called on North Korea to escalate hostilities and return to negotiations not to reverse the peace deal.
Some experts say that North Korea, which mobilized mass demonstrators to condemn criminals, is deliberately censoring the South to mobilize its people and divert attention from the declining economy. Experts say the COVID-19 crisis has impeded many of his financial goals, even though Kim Jong-un has declared "frontal success" against sanctions.
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