Seoul will seek legal measures over North Korea’s destruction of the inter-Korean liaison office three years ago, a unification ministry official said Tuesday, ahead of the expiration of the statute of limitations later this week.

The DPRK blew up the liaison office building largely funded by South Korea on June 16, 2020, in protest against anti-regime leaflets that defector activists sent northward by balloon.

“In order to prevent the expiration of the right to claim damages, action will be taken before June 16, which marks three years since North Korea demolished the liaison office,” a ministry official told reporters