SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea stated on Wednesday it had actually turned down South Korea’s offer to send out special envoys to ease intensifying bilateral stress, and promised to redeploy soldiers to demilitarised border systems in the current step towards nullifying inter-Korean peace accords.
SUBMIT IMAGE: A North Korean soldier looks towards the south as a South Korean soldier stands guard in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the 2 Koreas, South Korea, August 28,2019 REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Pool
The statements made by state media agency KCNA came one day after North Korea exploded a joint intermediary workplace set up in a border town as part of a 2018 agreement by the two countries’ leaders, as tensions flare over propaganda leaflets sent out by defectors into the reclusive state.
South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Monday offered to send his national security advisor Chung Eui-yong and spy chief Suh Hoon as special envoys. Kim Yo Jong, the sis of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a senior ruling celebration authorities, “flatly rejected the tactle