South Korea will “not endure” further insults or aggression from the North, Seoul’s presidential Blue House said Wednesday, in the wake of Pyongyang’s high-profile demolition of an inter-Korean liaison office at Kaesong the previous day.

In a series of statements, the Blue House, along with Seoul’s defense and unification ministries, expressed “strong regret” in response to Pyongyang’s repeated threats to redeploy troops and resume military drills in previously-demilitarized areas along the inter-Korean border.

The presidential office also condemned an earlier statement by top North Korean official Kim Yo Jong, in which