North Korea has threatened to close a liaison office with the South as officials seethe over anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent across the border, saying further steps were also in the pipeline to make Seoul “suffer.” | AFP
South Korean activists release a banner showing North Koran leader Kim Jong-Un hanging on a balloon at a field near the Demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas in the border city of Paju on April 29, 2016. – South Korean and US activists on April 29 launched anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border where tensions have been running high since the isolated state’s last nuclear test in January.
SEOUL — North Korea has threatened to close a liaison office with the South as officials seethe over anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent across the border, saying further steps were also in the pipeline to make Seoul “suffer.” The warning is the second in two days of possible retaliation over Seoul’s failure to stop North Korean defectors dropping the information from hot-air balloons criticizing the regime’s human rights record and nuclear ambitions.On Thursday, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, threatened to scrap a military agreement signed with Seoul and pull the plug on other inter-Korean projects.
“As the first thing, we will definitely withdraw the idling North-South joint liaison office,” a spokesman for the North’s United Front Department, which handles inter-Korean relations, said in a statement Friday carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
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