New escalation with the announcement: North Korea blows up a liaison office at the border to South Korea

The South Korean news Agency Yonhap reported, in Kaesong, where the liaison office is also a disused joint industrial zone is located, is moved up after an Expl

New escalation with the announcement: North Korea blows up a liaison office at the border to South Korea

The South Korean news Agency Yonhap reported, in Kaesong, where the liaison office is also a disused joint industrial zone is located, is moved up after an Explosion of smoke. The liaison office has served as an important channel of communication between the two States. The tensions on the Korean Peninsula rock is currently back up.

The Communist leadership in Pyongyang had already threatened with the withdrawal of a bilateral military agreement of 2018 on confidence-building measures, and also with the closure of the liaison office. Also, North Korea cut the communications lines to the South.

threat of the sister of North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Un

The influential sister of leader Kim Jong-Un had threatened a few days ago with a military action against South Korea and the liaison office in Kaesong mentioned. "In a tragic scene of the fully is collapsed, useless North-South liaison offices to see," said Kim Yo Jong on Saturday. AP Kim Jong Un and his sister Kim Yo Jong.

On Tuesday, the North Korea threatened then niche army with a military action. The North Korean army is "fully ready," said the General staff of the Korean people's army. Due to a deterioration of inter-Korean relations already examined, a "plan of action" to transform "the front line in a fortress", was quoted by the army leadership of the state media. The army wants to send, therefore, soldiers in the territories that were demilitarized after an agreement between the two countries.

The North Korean army did not indicate in which areas you want to penetrate. South Korean media reports that North Korea could back up border posts along the heavily fortified border, had been reduced to a agreement by 2018. dpa/-/KCNA/Reuters Kim Jong Un

leaflet-action South Korean activists

the Background of the conflict, a leaflet campaign by South Korean activists. In the leaflets, which are usually sent balloons over the border, North Korea's rulers for human rights violations and its nuclear policy is criticized. The Communist leadership in Pyongyang accuses the government in Seoul to stop the activists in it. On Tuesday, North Korea threatened a niche army only, for their part, with a "major leaflet campaign". AP smoke rises after the detonation of the liaison offices on the border of North - to South Korea.

The inter-Korean relations have come since the failed summit in North Korea with the United States in February last year to a Halt. Experts suspect that North Korea wants to increase with an escalation of the conflict with South Korea, the pressure on the United States.

expert ranks the threat of war, a

"The North Korean leadership is not upset that Seoul and actions of the democracy activists who Express their criticism of the Kim Regime also balloons in the North, prevents and ensures a regime change on the part of South Korea and the United States," says North Korea expert Enrico Fels of the University of Bonn, in an interview with FOCUS Online. The liaison office was to have been for symbolic purposes, destroyed to show that it was with the previous measures of South Korea unhappy, and now a renewed alienation between South and North Korea takes place. Also, that Kim Jong-Un has areas may have been demilitarized, 2018, now again wants to occupy, files Rock as symbolism: "Should Kim South Korea wrest future concessions, the Situation can change again quickly."

The danger of war between the two countries topped estimates at the moment as extremely low. North Korea would have no desire for war: "The blowing up of the liaison office symbol policy, not a military provocation." The Liason-building is, according to the Rock on North Korean soil, and was built in 2018, in the Wake of the rapprochement between South Korea and the United States, the inter-Korean dialogue in the framework of spatial connectedness forward. Since the beginning of the corona crisis in January, not representatives of South Korea were in the office but more.

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Date Of Update: 16 June 2020, 10:27
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