North Korea announces closure of North Korea-South Korea Liaison Office

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 6th, Xinyang News: A spokesman for the North Korean United Front Department made a statement on the 5th, condemning the "North Korean defectors" from South Korea to North Korea for distributing anti-DPRK leaflets and South Korea's attitude of condoning the matter, saying that the DPRK side Decided to close the North Korea-Korea Liaison Office in the Kaicheng Industrial Park.

　　According to a report by the Korean Central News Agency, a spokesman for the North Korean United Front Department said in his speech that the South Korean connivance "will only intensify the sense of hostility and tension that no one wants to see." The spokesman emphasized that the DPRK will look directly at the current situation and accompany it in the vicious circle of confrontation. This is the determination of the DPRK. The spokesperson also warned that the ROK should deeply reflect on the seriousness and devastating consequences of the situation and "do what it should do."

　　The spokesman said that Kim Yo-jung, the first deputy minister of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, has taken key measures to completely eliminate all the provocations of the ROK, and completely cut off and abandon all contact spaces with the ROK. The first action of the DPRK is to close the DPRK-ROK liaison office in the Kaicheng Industrial Park, and other corresponding measures will be taken thereafter.

　　The Workers’ Party of Korea’s “Labor News” reported on the 4th that Kim and Jung made a statement that day, strongly condemning the “North Korean defectors” group for distributing anti-DPRK flyers, and stressed that if the Korean side does not take corresponding measures, it will face the demolition and closure of the Kaicheng Industrial Park. The DPRK-ROK Liaison Office and the lifting of the "Agreement on the Implementation of the Consensus in the Military Field in the Declaration of Panmunjom" and other consequences.

　　Yonhap News Agency reported that from this conversation, it is speculated that the sister of Kim Jong Un, chairman of the North Korean State Council, is currently responsible for affairs with South Korea. This is also the first time that North Korea has spoken in the name of the spokesman of the United Front Department since Kim Jong-un took office. (Finish)