North Korea said it would sever communications with South Korea, attributing the move to the South’s failure to stop activists from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.
The North’s Korean Central News Agency said all communication would be cut off at noon on Tuesday in the “the first step of the determination to completely shut down all contact means with South Korea and get rid of unnecessary things,” according to the Associated Press.
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