North Korea

Spokespeople for South Korea’s Defense Ministry and Presidential Office didn’t respond to requests for comment.

It is this whole-of-country response that makes South Korea so formidable.

When North and South Korea opened their first liaison office, President Moon Jae-in declared a “new era has dawned.” This week, Kim Jong Un showed him how little had changed when he reduced the US$15 million building to rubble.

North Korea destroyed an inter-Korean liaison office on its side of the border Tuesday, South Korea said, shortly after threatening military action in the region over anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent into its territory.

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