By Justin McCurry and agencies in Seoul
Kim Jong-un’s sister had said office, set up to improve co-operation with South Korea, was ‘useless’
North Korea has blown up a liaison office set up to improve communications with the South in a row over defectors’ plans to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the heavily armed border.
South Korea’s unification ministry said the North had set off an explosion at the joint liaison office at 2:49 pm, in the North Korean border town of Kaesong. The reports, from the Yonhap news agency, added that military sources had heard an explosion and seen smoke rising from the building.
Source: North Korea blows up liaison office in row over defectors’ leaflet campaign
Category: North Korea, South Korea, Asia Pacific, World news
