SEOUL: A convoy of dozens of South Korean officials left for an inter-Korean liaison office in North Korea on Monday (Mar 25) in a bid to maintain ...
SEOUL: A convoy of dozens of South Korean officials left for an inter-Korean liaison office in North Korea on Monday in a bid to maintain fragile gains in relations with Pyongyang, despite North Korea's decision to pull out of the office last week.
In a major setback for South Korean President Moon Jae-in's attempts to engage, North Korea announced on Friday it was quitting the office, just hours after the United States imposed the first new sanctions on the North since the second U.S.-North Korea summit broke down last month. "It appears to be North Korea pressuring South Korea; it could also be signalling how South Korea's role is not needed or even meaningless, or even that North Korea's announcement of a 'new path' is imminent," said Kim Dong-yub, a North Korea and military expert at Kyungnam University’s Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Seoul.
"Although the North side has pulled out of the liaison office, the embers remain, and in order to guard the embers we are going to work today as usual," Kim Chang-su, deputy chief of the liaison office, said on Monday as he left for Kaesong.
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