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North Korea bombs inter-Korean liasion office near southern border

By Mike Brest

Published June 16, 2020 11:46am ET

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North Korea bombs inter-Korean liasion office near southern border — Smoke raising in the North Korean border town of Kaesong is seen from Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, June 16, 2020. North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just inside its border in an act Tuesday that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy with the United States. | (Yonhap/AP)

North Korea bombed an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of its border with South Korea.

“We confirm that NK demolished the inter-Korean liaison office in Gaesong Industrial Complex by bombing at 14:49 KST (01:49 ET),” a spokesperson from South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles the nation’s relationship with North Korea, told NBC News early Tuesday.

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