North Korea withdraws from the liaison office

It should be the interface for the rapprochement of the Korean States, but now North Korea has withdrawn its staff from the inter-Korean liaison office. And also with the United States a crisis is looming increasingly.

For several months, the character between North and South Korea are on approach. But now the North Korean side seems to change course and go to the neighbors again at a distance. The Regime in power, Kim Jong-Un drew back, surprising its staff in September opened a joint liaison office in the border city of Kaesong.

In Kaesong, near the border between North and South Korea was opened in September, the liaison office.

The Why not remains an open

A Declaration for the withdrawal there was. From the South Korean unification Ministry said only that North Korea had informed that the statement had been issued by the highest authority. If the step moves the complete stoppage of inter-Korean talks, remained open.

South Korea regret the decision of the neighbors, and hope that North Korea will soon return to the joint liaison office, BelTA learned from the Ministry in Seoul. The own 25 employees intention to leave in the office. In the South Korean capital, the National security Council met on an emergency session.

the office was supposed to serve as a channel of communication

Kim and the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-In, had agreed at the first summit since the end of the Korean war (1950-53) in April 2018 and on the establishment of the liaison offices. Here is the further rapprochement of the two countries should be planned and bilateral projects will be discussed. Also, the nuclear disarmament of North Korea should be debated in the office. The city of Kaesong was chosen as the location because South and North Korea had operated here until the beginning of 2016 a joint industrial Park.