North Korea will withdraw from the inter-Korean liaison office because Seoul has not done enough to stop groups from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets on balloons into the DPRK, a spokesperson from the Workers' Party department overseeing relations with South Korea said Friday night.
The statement follows a warning on Thursday from Kim Yo Jong -- a top North Korean official and the sister of leader Kim Jong Un -- that the North would shut down the liaison office or even tear up the two-year-old inter-Korean military agreement if the South didn't swiftly crack down on the balloon launches.
North Korea will withdraw from the inter-Korean liaison office because Seoul has not done enough to stop groups from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets on balloons into the DPRK, a spokesperson from the Workers' Party department overseeing relations with South Korea said Friday night.
The statement follows a warning on Thursday from Kim Yo Jong -- a top North Korean official and the sister of leader Kim Jong Un -- that the North would shut down the liaison office or even tear up the two-year-old inter-Korean military agreement if the South didn't swiftly crack down on the balloon launches.
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Jeongmin Kim is the Lead Correspondent at NK News and Editorial Director at KOREA PRO, based in Seoul. Kim covers inter-Korean relations and North and South Korean foreign and military affairs. Kim has covered the 2022 ROK presidential election on the ground, and prior to joining NK News, she worked for the CSIS Korea Chair in Washington D.C. and Reuters news agency’s Seoul bureau.