Postponement of removal of North Korean facilities at Mt.
North Korea has indicated that it will remove the South Korean facility at the scenic spot of Mount Geumgang (Mt.Kumgang), but will notify the Korean side that it will postpone the removal schedule to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection. Did.
This was announced by a spokesman for the Korean Ministry of Unification at a press conference on the morning of March 31, and the notice was issued late on the night of March 30.
North Korea was shaking South Korea, which will not resume the tourism business on Mount Kumgan in consideration of the United States, with a policy of removing facilities on the South Korean side repeatedly from October last year.
Regarding postponement of removal, South Korean media has said that `` North Korea is to concentrate on the prevention of new coronavirus '', showing the view that North Korea is nervous to the new coronavirus .
North Korea stopped operations of a joint liaison office in Quezon Industrial Park, where officials from both the north and the south are stationed, on the 30th, as infected people were successively confirmed in South Korea. doing.