North Korea to cut all communications with ‘enemy’ South – By Guardian Staff and agencies (The Guardian) / June 8 2020
Pyongyang has said it will make Seoul ‘suffer’ during worsening spat over anti-North Korean leaflets sent from South
North Korea says it will sever hotlines with South Korea as the first step toward shutting down all means of contact with Seoul, state news agency KCNA has reported.
For several days, North Korea has lashed out at South Korea, threatening to close an inter-Korean liaison office and other projects if the South does not stop activists and defectors from sending leaflets and other anti-Pyongyang material into the North.
The North has said it would make Seoul “suffer”.
Top government officials in North Korea, including leader Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, and Kim Yong-chol, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ party of Korea, determined “that the work towards the South should thoroughly turn into the one against an enemy’, KCNA said.
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