N. Korea Pulls Out Of Liaison Office

This comes hours after the U.S. imposed fresh set of sanctions on Pyongyang

North Korea on Friday pulled out of a liaison office with the South, in a major setback for Seoul, just hours after the United States imposed the first new sanctions on the North since the second U.S.-North Korea summit broke down last month.

North Korea said it was quitting the joint liaison office set up in September in the border city of Kaesong after a historic summit between leader Kim Jong-un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in early last year.

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