On Monday, Seoul announced that North Korea had reinstated its staff in the inter-Korean liaison office a week after it was withdrawn.

Pyongyang has redeployed its staff to the inter-Korean liaison office a few days after removing it from this body in the wake of the failure of the second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, Seoul said on Monday.

"Counting from today". "Some of the North Korean staff are working in the South / North joint liaison office as of today," the South Korean Unification Ministry said in a statement.

Open since September . This office was opened in September as part of a spectacular rapprochement on the peninsula but North Korea had withdrawn its staff last week without explanation.