North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border on Tuesday, the Southâs Unification ministry said, after days of increasingly virulent rhetoric from Pyongyang.
âNorth Korea blows up Kaesong Liaison Office at 14:49,â the ministry, which handles inter-Korean relations, said in a one-line alert sent to reporters.
The statement came minutes after an explosion was heard and smoke seen rising from the long-shuttered joint industrial zone in Kaesong where the liaison office was located, Yonhap news agency reported citing unspecified sources.
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