Diplomacy goes up in smoke | North Korea blows up liaison office

Diplomacy looks to be literally going up in smoke on the Korean Peninsula, with South Korea’s Defense Ministry releasing a video that it says shows the North blowing up a building that was supposed to be used as a liaison office to try and improve relations.

The office in the North Korean city of Kaesong was inaugurated in 2018, although North Korean staff cleared their desks and left in 2019.

Pyongyang confirmed that the building had been destroyed by a ‘terrific explosion’ as payback from its ‘enraged people.’ It went on to explain that it had acted to ‘force [the] human scum, and those who have sheltered the scum, to pay dearly for their crimes.’ If the explosion didn’t sink relations, then that should do it. The North is also now threatening to deploy troops in demilitarized zones.

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