Kaesong
North Korea blows up roads connecting it to the South
Barricades are seen at a military checkpoint on the Tongil bridge, the road leading to North Korea's Kaesong city, in the border city of Paju on Oct. 15, 2024.
North Korea blew up sections of the deeply symbolic roads connecting it to the South on Tuesday, Seoul's military said, adding it had conducted a "counter-fire" operation in response.
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The North Korean government's notice did not mention COVID-19 but said Pyongyang residents had to stay indoors for the rest of the week and undergo temperature checks several times a day, South Korea's NK News reported, citing Reuters.
Seoul: North Korea blew up liaison office as tensions rise
South Korea says that North Korea has exploded an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the tense Korean border.
Seoul's Unification Ministry says the destruction of the building at the North Korean border town of Kaesong happened at 2:49 p.m. on June 16.
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North Korea has restarted operations at the Kaesong industrial zone, state-run web sites said on Friday, after the joint venture with South Korea was suspended last year amid disagreement over the North's nuclear and missile programs, Reuters reported.
US, allies target N Korea finances after rocket test
The United States and its Asian allies tightened the economic screws on North Korea on Feb. 11, with the US Senate adopting fresh sanctions and South Korean firms abandoning a joint industrial park that helped fund Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.
N.Korea cancels visit by UN chief, claims nuclear breakthrough
North Korea said May 20 it has the technology to make nuclear missile warheads, less than two weeks after announcing it had launched a ballistic missile from a submarine.